From its earliest beginnings as a colonized territory, Louisiana has always been seen as a land apart. Its landscapes, tangled with vegetation and dense with waterways, were alternately viewed as ...

Prehistory-6th century. Cosmological landscapes -- Ancient gardens -- Landscape and architecture -- Genius loci -- 6th-15th centuries. Western Europe : walled minds, walled gardens -- Moorish Spain : ...

Maths is enabling a deeper dive into the evolution of artistic styles. Ancient artwork holds clues to past cultures, but even the most astute art historian would struggle to study thousands of ...

Past informs present, even an antique art object or the landscape of a long-defunct academy, Xin Conan-Wu would like her students to remember. This idea pervades her research and even more so her ...

Whether it's Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, or ancient humans' lustrous cave paintings, the creation of art is an inherently human story. By applying a ...

A statistical approach applied to Western landscape paintings reveals spatial composition patterns that could characterize different artists and style periods, according to a study. Works of art are ...

An artist and archaeologist has opened a new exhibition, inspired by a county's history and landscape. Dr Rose Ferraby's Downland: Art & the Archaeological Imagination, aims to explore how Wiltshire's ...