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 ...

A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day ...

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 ...

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 ...

Konrad Oberhuber, 72, an art history scholar who specialized in drawings and was considered one of the world's leading experts on the Renaissance artist Raphael, died of brain cancer Sept. 12 in ...

CHICAGO (STMW) --The Art Institute of Chicago has made "a major acquisition" of an early 17th century painting by Ludovico Carracci, one of three artists in the family who transformed Italian ...

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 ...