Art historians
Remembering David Anfam, curator, writer and Abstract Expressionism connoisseur
The artist Erin Lawlor recalls her time spent with the art historian, who wrote defining texts on artists such as Mark Rothko and offered critical support for the next generation
Leonardo scholar claims newly discovered document proves artist’s mother was enslaved
While researching a work of historical fiction, Carlo Vecce says he found a document signed by Leonardo da Vinci’s father implying his mother was an enslaved woman from the North Caucasus region
Art history sleuths reunite mother with husband and son in 17th-century Flemish portrait
Scholars have pieced together separate parts of painting after 200 years
Drawing of male nude is Michelangelo’s sketch for Sistine Chapel, scholar says
Red chalk preparatory work may be linked to “Worship of the Brazen Serpent” section of Vatican masterpiece
Frank Popper—the historian at the forefront of art’s digital revolution—has died, aged 102
Expert in art and technology led the way in documenting the development of "virtual art"
Art historian Douglas Crimp, who defined the Pictures Generation, dies aged 74
The writer, curator and editor organised the influential Pictures exhibition and championed artist activism during the Aids crisis
Ruskin and Gombrich: revisiting two art historical heavyweights
Amid a wealth of events celebrating the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth we reconsider the breadth of his achievements. Plus, we talk to two experts in E.H. Gombrich. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
The all-powerful market is sounding the death knell for connoisseurship
Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose
Diary of an art historian: at last, some common sense for the abolition of image fees
Birmingham Museums Trust takes the lead and places images in the public domain, but who will follow?
How to force historians to use their eyes: book urges academics to 'take art more seriously'
Princeton University's Theodore K. Rabb says more visual materials—not only written records—should be explored
Many pictures but no big picture: book struggles to capture the extraordinary life of Harald Szeemann
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
Thinking with pictures: how images were used for philosophical thinking in the Early Modern period
A rich and fascinating book on what can rightly be called the art of philosophy
Lost art: the world’s invisible collections
Noah Charney on the Sadnikar family's extremely personal collection in Slovenia
TED-style art history platform aims to promote arts education online
Heni Talks features videos from artists including Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller
Books essay: naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian was a woman in a man’s world
Her work straddles the territories of art and science, bugs and flowers
Polish art world calls on national museum to stage 'major international show' against fascism
An open letter to Krakow institution asks for exhibition to counter rise of the right in Poland
Stop reading, start looking: today’s art history students are not getting a grounding in connoisseurship skills
When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist
Linda Nochlin: the American art historian who first pointed the finger at institutional barriers as the explanation for the absence of great female artists from the canon
She changed forever the way people thought about the mythology of artistic genius, and the masterpiece theatre version of art history
Pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin dies aged 86
Her essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, changed the course of art history
Modigliani expert Christian Parisot sentenced for forgery
He maintains his innocence
Sotheby's James Stourton glazes over the more cut-throat tendencies of private collectors in new book
This account by the UK chairman of Sotheby’s is enthusiastic but superficial
Husband and wife allege Guy Cogeval's Vuillard catalogues were “plagiarised” from their unpublished manuscript
Art historians go to court in France and the US to reclaim the research they say was stolen from them
Books: American art from Norsemen to Culture Wars
A well-written history of art in North America for students
Interview with John Richardson: His new memoirs as Cubism’s Falstaff
Richardson talks about his mentor and one time lover, Douglas Cooper—fiendish and funny art historian, aesthete and champion of Cubism
The director of the Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg remembers his friend, Italy’s most famous art historian
Federico Zeri, an independent mind
Ferrara pays homage to Aby Warburg
Palazzo Schifanoia displays archive material from the Warburg Institute to commemorate her work
Obituary for Michael Jaffé: As demanding of himself as he was of others
A formidable connoisseur, academic and museum director who inspired many top figures in the British art world.
Otto Von Simson dies
Professor Otto von Simson, the German art historian, died in Berlin at the end of May, aged 80.