James Cahill, an acclaimed scholar of Chinese art and professor at UC Berkeley, has died. He was 87. News. ... The snowy-haired scholar recited a few lines by early 20th century humorist Clarence Day: ...

Medieval Studies and Early Modern Collections Highlights in these collections include a teaching collection of medieval manuscripts and leaves, significant holdings of medieval studies and early ...

Michelangelo secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a scholar of Italian art has sensationally claimed. Adriano Marinazzo, a curator of special projects at William & Mary ...

Thanks to her original research, an audience ranging from scholars to those with a general interest in Early Modern art and intellectual history can now access and understand this rich collection ...

German painter and scholar Anita Albus keeps her agenda veiled until her book's fourth and last section: "The Art of Arts" is an attack on modern painting. Albus makes lengthy analyses of pictures ...

Quatrilobed Plaque, ca. 1300-1310, probably by Guillaume Julien (French), Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, gift of William Mathewson Milliken, ...

Najita’s many publications on Japan’s early modern and modern intellectual history include Hara Kei and the Politics of Compromise (1967), which was awarded the John King Fairbank Prize in East Asian ...

For example, the gentleman scholar was a respected, virtuous figure of the early modern period, but taken to excess, his virtues became pathological. His intellect became his undoing. Fear ...