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Smarthistory
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Smarthistory, a nonprofit, collaborates with museums, academics, conservators, and knowledge-bearers to make art history accessible and engaging while retaining nuance and rigor—plus everything is free! https://smarthistory.org
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a new #Smarthistory essay by Dr. Letha Ch'ien on one of the most seen/overlooked #Renaissance buildings in #Italy

#architecture #ArchitecturalHistory #Venice #Venetian
July 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Chihil Sutun, a Safavid palace
a new #Smarthistory essay by Dr. Samira Fathi
#Safavid #Iran #architecture #architecturalhistory

smarthistory.org/chihil-sutun/
July 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Why art history isn't like math"
a new Smarthistory essay aimed at students and others unfamiliar with the Humanities:
smarthistory.org/why-art-hist...

#arthistory #humanities #education
June 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Catching up with essay submissions on this pre-holiday Friday. What a privilege to work with so many brilliant and generous scholars. Smarthistory has more than 3,500 essays authored by more than 800 art historians who want to tell you about the things they study. Coming soon, Safavid architecture!
May 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Smarthistory, a tiny not-for-profit, published 24 new videos and essays in the past month from the Romanesque to a Khmer Buddha to a Joe Overstreet made on the lower east side in 1970—all produced by art historians and all for free and with no ads, for you.

explore: smarthistory.org

#art
May 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Join a 13th-century Buddhist monk as he comes upon the historical Buddha in his dream.

Myōe Kōben, Dream Record (Yume no ki)
with Dr. Frank Feltens, Curator of Japanese Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution

smarthistory.org/myoe-koben-d...
May 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Need a little drop dead gorgeous Roman mosaic? Take a peek at the House of Neptune and Amphitrite at Herculaneum by Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay: smarthistory.org/neptune-amph...
May 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Lots of wonderful new content is being published on smarthistory.org

Antoine Watteau, The Pleasures of the Ball by Dr. Meredith Martin was published yesterday and explores the Rococo but unlike so much writing on the fête galante, does not ignore race: smarthistory.org/antoine-watt...
May 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Want to learn more about the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore where Pope Francis was entombed? Smarthistory can help:
smarthistory.org/basilica-of-...
April 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
from the Paris 1900 Exposition,
Louis Comfort Tiffany's Favrile glass masterpiece, and a new Smarthistory video!
smarthistory.org/louis-comfor...

#ArtNouveau #Paris1900 #art #arthistory #glass
April 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New photo set of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, 1974-79
www.flickr.com/photos/profz...
April 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Ah, we made a short video about this painting with a wonderful curator at the Art Institute of Chicago: smarthistory.org/elizabeth-sp...

and we have a HD photo set of the canvas here: www.flickr.com/search/?user...
April 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross
a new Smarthistory video:
smarthistory.org/rogier-van-d...
April 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Doomscrolling? Beauty and creativity can help.
Explore smarthistory.org

#art #arthistory #doomscrolling #selfcare #learning
April 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"Who accompanied the jíbaro’s prayer in the isolated mountains of 19th-century Puerto Rico"

Learn about Santos de palo (wooden saints) in a new essay by Dr. Tamara Díaz Calcaño: smarthistory.org/caban-group-...

#art #arthistory #Caribbean #19thc
March 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thanks to Dr. Stacy Kamehiro, Executive Editor, Pacific Arts: Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, Smarthistory is publishing ten essays on art by Pacific Islanders, written by Pacific Islanders. Here are two:

smarthistory.org/kapulani-lan...

smarthistory.org/ola-ka-wai-o...

#art #arthistory
March 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
To see this Casper David Friedrich in high resolution and with details, as well as 16,945 photos of commonly taught works of art (all with a #CreativeCommons license), please visit: www.flickr.com/photos/profz...

#art #arthistory #Romanticism #German #landscape #seascape
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
March 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I really loved this painting when I photographed it. We hope to have a video about it before long. Details of the painting can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/profz...

#art #arthistory #portrature
March 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Detail of Joe Overstreet's Boxes, 1970, acrylic on constructed canvas with metal grommets and cotton rope, 292.1 × 171.5 × 121.9 cm (Art Bridges, © estate of the artist)

For the full photoset in high resolution and nearly 17,000 more photos of art and architecture, www.flickr.com/photos/profz...
March 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One of the many treasures in Madrid, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, 1489–90 for the full painting at high resolution, please visit our Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/profz...

#art #arthistory
March 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Allegory and effect of good and bad government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
smarthistory.org/ambrogio-lor...

and here is a high res photo set: www.flickr.com/search/?sort...

#art #arthistory #government #ethics #tyranny #corruption
March 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A couple of other exterior photos to give context
February 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Amiens Cathedral smarthistory.org/amiens/
February 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Smarthistory a wonderful new essay:
Conceptual art in Beirut: Farid Haddad’s “Hearts and Monuments” by Dr. Monique Bellan

smarthistory.org/beirut-farid...
February 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM