Rest and Unrest: the Sleeping Body in Visual Art
Sleep is a profound and puzzling phenomenon. Though nearly all of Earth's creatures sleep in some form, its precise mechanism is still...
House of the Dragon - A History of the Dragon in Visual Art
With HBO's first Game of Thrones prequel set to air towards the end of the month, we find ourselves strapping in for more fantastical...
Object and Art - A Timeline of the Still Life Through Artistic History
In Ancient Greece, Pliny the Elder recorded a story in the Naturalis Historia about a competition held between two artists - Zeuxis of...
Animals in the History of Visual Art: A Deep Dive
At least 45,000 years ago, early humans began marking surfaces with representations that reflected a vivid conceptualization of their...
Framed - A History of Frames in Visual Art
About 80 km southwest of Cairo lies Fayum. Located on the shores of a giant pseudo-oasis fed by the Nile, Fayum is one of the oldest...