Art & Art History

Architectural Innovations of the Gothic

History Painting after Two World Wars: Anselm Kiefer's Die Ungeborenen

Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night

Marco Pino's The Resurrection of Lazarus

Genius and Celebrity

History at the Academy & the Salon: Jean-Léon Gérôme's Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant

Unintended Consequences: Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Deianira (c. 1475-80)

Darkness to Light: Garofalo's The Conversion of Saint Paul

The Social Function of Games

Cathedrals from the Middle Ages to the Present

A Radiating Chapel: The Sainte-Chapelle

The Amassing of Relics (The Age of Cathedrals)

Creating Sequels

Handwriting on the Wall: John Martin's Belshazzar's Feast (1820)

Benjamin West's Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus

Introduction to History Painting

Find the Hero: Ary Scheffer's The Retreat of Napoleon's Army from Russia in 1812

John Trumbull and Historical Fiction: The Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 (1786)

Against Nature: Peter Paul Rubens's Hero and Leander

Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet

"To Paint the Way the Spartans Spoke": Gavin Hamilton's The Death of Lucretia

Fiction and Stories in Games

Shock of the Nude: Pioneering Women Artists and the Cultural Politics of Modern China

Charlemagne in Glass