Thoughts about teaching and learning art history...

Smarthistory is public art history

Siphnian Treasury, c. 530 B.C.E., Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece

Smarthistory featured in Education Week

digital art history

How Smarthistory stacks up (and why museums should care about YouTube)

Smarthistory.org is back!

The Exhibition Room_at Somerset House by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin 1800.

Smarthistory in 2015—more than 13 million views

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Reconstruction drawing of Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian palace, by James Fergusson for Sir Henry Layard, published in 1853. The columns depicted here were never found. The reconstruction is clearly influenced by what was known at that time of Greco-Roman architecture and by John Martin's Fall of Nineveh (1829).

Archaeological Reconstructions, by Sebastian Hageneuer, M.A.

Using SmartHistory to Generate Good Conversations in the Art History Survey —by Karen Gonzalez Rice, Connecticut College

Teaching the Art History Survey Teaching with Smarthistory The Future of the Art History Textbook

Katsushika Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa, Edo period, 19th century (Tokyo National Museum)

Freshman year jitters (as a professor)! (by Dr. Melody Rod-ari)

Come to: “The Ancient Cities of Uzbekistan: An Exploration into the Silk Road and its Architectural and Religious Heritage,” an illustrated lecture given by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (Smarthistory contributing editor) and George H. Lewis

Manar-al-Athar — Free resource for the study of the Middle East (by Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis)

Titian, Pastoral Concert, c. 1509, 105 x 137 cm (Louvre)

The dog days of summer—new essays and videos

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