The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century challenged
European assumptions about ancient life; just as influential, if quieter, was the revolution …

The wash drawings and oil paintings of subjects from Greek tragedy by Anglo-Swiss painter
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), routinely categorized as romantic classicism, might be better …

The story goes like this. The fall of Rome and the rise of Christianity, which Edward Gibbon
notoriously construed as one and the same, destroyed the rich heritage of antiquity. 1 …

Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his
earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is largely neglected within the disciplines …

Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe. 1 When we open up a systematic perspective on these
occasional essays, however, it is clear that Foucault was engaged in an effort to define a …

ABSTRACT In this essay, Martin Myrone explores aspects of the art of the Swiss-born
painter Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) in the context of the transformation of the public culture of …

A fresh look at the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a
single phenomenon, at once deeply spiritual and entirely new. Adam and Eve are driven …

This article offers a historiographical analysis of Foucault's contribution to art theory by
arguing that the philosopher used the medium of painting and its history since Alberti to …

In his 1568 biography of the Venetian painter Giorgione, Giorgio Vasari described a now-
lost or possibly fictive painting by this artist composed of a series of mirrored effects …

Francesco Primaticcio designed his celebrated Galerie d'Ulysse at Fontainebleau (now
destroyed) at a time when the epic genre was being updated and redefined. One of the most …