The Origins of Art, or Going Back to Old Lascaux

The Lost Lives of Greek Vases

Archaeology and the Early Japanese State
“State Formation and the Introduction of Buddhism to Japan: An Archaeological Perspective”

Tetsuro Hishida ∙ Kyoto Prefectural University

“Center and Periphery in Early State Formation in Japan”

Ken’ichi Sasaki ∙ Meiji University

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Cultural Histories of “Orientalizing” Crete

Rethinking “Pictorialism”: American Art and Photography from 1895 to 1925

Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck’s Late Paintings

Imperial Visual Propaganda: Claims of Legitimacy in the Byzantine Paris Psalter

Courting Failure in the Arab Hall

1973; or the Arche of Neoliberalism

A Short History of “Black Painting”
(Hei hua): A Counter Tradition in Chinese Art

Postclassicisms: Archaeology

The Heart's Double

Urban Gardening in Early Medieval Italy

Subverting the Façade: Paris Architecture between Haussmann and Radical Modernism

On the magnitude of the gods in materialist theology, epic poetry, and Greek art

Velazquez, Aesop, and War

“The bullets flew about our ears like handfuls of gravel stones”
Archaeology and the Preservation of Battlefields of the American War of Independence

Mecca’s Perspective as Symbolic Form

Crowd Wisdom: Three Scholars Take on the Multitudes

Readings Lectures Performances
accompanying the exhibition
Hanne Darboven's Address — Place and Time

Islamic Art, Armenian Art: Connections across Religions

The Visualization of Political Rhetoric
in the Reign of Nerva

Colloquium: The Modernity of Sculpture

The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons

Xenophon in a Pontic Landscape: Settlement Models for the Iron Age in the Kırkgeçit çayı Drainage, Sinop (Turkey)

Africa and Europe: Rethinking Medieval and Early Modern Artistic Engagements and Cross-Currencies

A History of Detail

Abydos, Egypt: Landscape of Kings, Landscape of Myth

Oil, Amber, Fire, Smoke: Greek Art beyond Materials

Once again, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I

Alberti's Eye - The Body of Vision

Michelangelo and paper as palimpsest: drawings, letters, records, and sonnets

Investigating a Minoan Coastal Town in East Crete: New Work at Palaikastro, 2012-16

Agents of Changes in the Material Culture of the Empire: Technical and Aesthetical Innovations at the Abbasid Court 

Symposium: The Berlin Painter and his World

Christian Time in Early Modern Europe

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Pathos, Symptom, Expression: Laocoon in Europe, 16th to 20th Centuries

From Ife to Ifranji: Materials in a World System, circa 1300

Nezu Ka’ichirō's Buddha Heads, Yamanaka Sadajirō, and Tianlongshan's Sculptural Diaspora

Cazzon da mulo - Wit and Irony in Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard”

Shared Romanitas: Roman Imperial Cameos in the Byzantine East and Latin West

The Shape of Byzantine Art in the Index of Christian Art

Hauarra: A Trajanic Auxiliary Fort on the Arabian Frontier in Jordan

The Problem(?) of Carolingian Gospel Narrative

Aphrodisias in Caria: Recent Work, New Finds

Problems of Painterliness in Early Medieval Art: The Case of Ottonian Cologne

The Agency of Models: Holy Sepulchres, Hagia Sophias, Jerusalems

Making Faces in Medieval Iberia

The Princeton Index's "Medium" and the Immaterial Nature of Digital Work: Manuscripts Reassessed

Black-Figure on the Black Sea: Athenian Pottery from Berezan

East Meets West? Cosmas Indicopleustes’ Christian Topography and the Codex Amiatinus

Actuality, Potentiality, and Renaissance Classicism

The Meaning of Early Greek Images (11th-7th Centuries BC)

Inventing Lutheran Iconography: Ornament, Style and the Passion

Reading Mile High: Frank Lloyd Wright Takes on Chicago 1956

Eternal Obelisk: Egyptian, Christian, Modern

The Art of Conversion: Kongo Christian Visual Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Discussion

Ma kisi nsi: Kongo a Sansala Art

Kongo or Congo? Violence, Modernism, and the Visual Unconscious of Belgian Colonialism, 1897-2013

Four Moments Revisited: Kongo in the American Imaginary

Reconstructing Excavated Manuscripts

Discussion

Raised to Glory, Crowned with Gold: German Nuns and Their Statues in the Late Middle Ages

Palaeography, Phonology, and Methodological Reflections

Secondary Literature in the Reading of Bronze Inscriptions

Discovering Icons at Sinai: From Uspenskij to Weitzmann

Discussion

A Short History of Rome's Pantheon

Rebuilt in Antiquity, Reused in the Middle Ages, Rediscovered in the Renaissance

Pictorial Citation in Song China: Theory and Practice

Obsolescence, History, and the Contradictions of Sustainability

Contemporary Islamic Art after September 11

Orientations of Renaissance Art

Malevich's Nervous System

Discussion

Paul Klee, Wilhelm Hausenstein, and the 'Problem of Style'

Discussion

Neither Breakthrough nor Breakdown: Episodes From a History of Medieval Abstraction

Discussion

Constructions of Difference in the Spanish Painting of Siglo de Oro:  Joseph's Coat and Vulcan's Forge by Velázquez

Ancient Egyptian Pictorial Representation

Recognition: Theme and Meta-Theme in Northern Renaissance Art

The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, and Beyond

Impossible Design: Porsena's Tomb and French Visionary Architecture

Up Close and Far Away: Artists, Memorialization and Uganda's Troubled Past

The Aesthetic Turn: A New Concept of 'Theory of Art'

Family Matters--The Strange Case of the 'Poetic Ideas' Scroll Attributed to Mi Youren and Sima Huai

How to Occupy an Image

Why Art History Matters: Politics, Ethics and Objects

Caravaggio: A Case Study in Art Historical Methodology

The Ubiquitous Exhibition: Magazines, Museums and the Reproducible Exhibition after World War II

It Doesn't Look Like Leonardo: Science, Connoisseurship, and Circumstance in the Attribution of Works of Art

Vantage Points: Andeans, Europeans, and the Arts of Construction in Colonial Quito

First under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392)

Postcolonial Urbanisms and the Uncertain Majority

Figuring the Renaissance: Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, and Their Critics

The Court of Saint Peter's: An Early Christian Church Atrium as a Place of Memory

Model Soviets

At Death's Door

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance

In Art, More Alive than in Reality: Imagining Objects in Ancient Greece

Preaching, Burying and Building in the Italian Medieval City

Crowded Walls: 20th-Century Nostalgia for 19th-Century Installation

Art and Science in America: Intersections and Collisions

Paradise Lost-Paradise Regained, Tomatso Shomei's Photographic Engagement with Okinawa

Paul Strand and the Cold War

Alassa: A Late Bronze Age Town on the Mountains of Alasiya, Cyprus

Being There: Photography as Habitation in Photo-texts by Wright Morris

King and Clown: Mimesis in Pre-Columbian Maya Art

The Practical Logic of Style and Memory in Early First Millennium Levantine Ivories

New Faces of Nature: Colossal Buddhas of Sichuan