Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government. History: Historic Figures. EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who li. Face of Russia. Themed timelines. MAPAS ANTIGUOS INTERACTIVOS Duiker/Spielvogel Interactive Maps. Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art History. As a term, art history (also history of art) encompasses several methods of studying the visual arts; in common usage referring to works of art and architecture.
Aspects of the discipline overlap. As the art historian Ernst Gombrich once observed, "the field of art history [is] much like Caesar's Gaul, divided in three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: (i) the connoisseurs, (ii) the critics, and (iii) the academic art historians".[2] Art history is not only a biographical endeavor. Art historians often root their studies in the scrutiny of individual objects. They thus attempt to answer in historically specific ways, questions such as: What are key features of this style? The historical backbone of the discipline is a celebratory chronology of beautiful creations commissioned by public or religious bodies or wealthy individuals in western Europe. Definition[edit] Methodologies[edit] Art historians often examine work in the context of its time.