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An art historian converts her university and lifelong-learning lectures into weekly posts on the history of Western art from cave paintings to Christo, with occasional reflections on the intersection of art and current events.
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Kouroi and the Greek ideal of perfection (opens the original)
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You’re reading a post from “A History of Western Art,” a series in the newsletter Art History with Anne Leader. Subscribe to follow the series from cave paintings to Christo and receive new illustrated essays every Tuesday morning.Subscribe nowIn
Object 26 of 50: The Merode Altarpiece (Early Netherlandish) (opens the original)
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Tucked away in a small room of the Met Cloisters Museum in New York city is a jewel of early Netherlandish painting, the so-called Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin. <img alt="Annunciati
Archaic Greece (opens the original)
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Art historians first used the word “Archaic” in the eighteenth century to describe the transition of Greek art from the purely abstract forms of the Geometric period to the idealized naturalism of the so-called Classical Period. The term brings with it a lot of judgment, as critics saw the art made in the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries BCE to be the “primitive” prelude to the great works of the Classical Period. Though we now judge Archaic Greece on its own merits, like so many p
Halfway through! (opens the original)
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As my series Survey in 50: a history of Western art from caves to Christo in fifty objects has reached the halfway mark, I thought it was a good time to reflect on the series so far and give newer readers a chance to catch up.And a HUGE thank you to all of my readers. Thanks to you, over 1,000 people receive my newsletter each week. A special thanks to everyone who has shared it with friends.Share art with a friend<a class="button primar
The Geometric Period in Greece (opens the original)
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As we saw in our last two posts, with the collapse of Mycenaean society, Aegean culture saw a retreat from its earlier architectural grandeur and pictorial beauty. Without patrons, artists found themselves out of work. No working artists means no training of the next generation. While artistic skills did lang
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