History isn’t just written in books — it’s buried in the artifacts we’ve lost. Across centuries, priceless treasures, sacred relics, and scientific wonders have vanished without a trace, swallowed by ...

Using the Mbari architecture of the Owerri-Igbo of eastern Nigeria as a starting point, this article addresses the different forms and meaning the objects take on in different historical periods and ...

An umbrella from early 20 th century Japan. A wine glass from Belgium, circa 1825. Three teapots: one from early 20 th century China, one from late 19 th century England and one from late 19 th ...

“I love cross-collecting,” Gho said, pointing at di Bicci’s Tobias and Archangel Raphael with Saints (ca. 1475). “I would love to have a collection in which Old Masters are having a dialogue with ...

Immanuel Kant and the bo(a)rders of art history / Mark A. Cheetham -- Art history's Hegelian unconscious : naturalism as nationalism in the study of early Netherlandish painting / Keith Moxey -- ...

Maria Kulikovska, “Star Dust (Zorianyi Pyl),” in Amazing Stories of Crimea, Art Arsenal (Mystetskyi Arsenal), Kyiv, February 26-May 5, 2019 (photo by Olexandr Popenko; all images courtesy of Art ...

Thomas Lucking is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher. Twice a day, every day, the tides of the River Thames rise and fall, revealing a foreshore that, in the middle of London, has been a focus of human ...