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Art history usually refers to the academic discipline covering the study of the history of the visual arts. Although ideas about the definition of art have changed over the years, the field of art history attempts to categorize changes in art throughout time and better understand how art shapes and is shaped by the outlooks and creative impulses of its practitioners. The subject does not just cover European art history, but encompasses all art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang dynasty in China.
Many articles relevant to Art History, especially on individual artists or works of art, are in other categories under Category:Visual arts
Covering the academic subject:
The product of said subject:
Subcategories
This category has the following 30 subcategories, out of 30 total.
Pages in category "Art history"
The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
A
- Accession Day tilt
- Achaemenid art
- Artistic canons of body proportions
- Altermodern
- Aniconism in Buddhism
- Animal studies
- Animalier school
- List of anonymous masters
- Anthropology of art
- AP Art History
- Archaeological science
- The Art Assignment
- Art colony
- Art for art's sake
- Art historical photo archive
- Art movement
- Artist's Assistant
- Artistic revolution
- Artstor
- Artwork title
- Association of Art Historians
C
- Canadian Conservation Institute
- Catalogue raisonné
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art
- CINOA Prize
- Classical mythology in culture
- Classificatory disputes about art
- Codicology
- Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art
- Commission for Looted Art in Europe
- Commission for Provenance Research
- Connoisseur
- Conservation and restoration of plastic objects
- Conservation technician
- Conservation and restoration of cultural property
- Conservator-restorer
- Context art
- Contrapposto
- Counter-Maniera
- History of the concept of creativity
- Art criticism
- List of art critics
- Cultural depictions of dogs
D
F
H
I
- Iconography
- Iconology
- Illusionism (art)
- Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie
- Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art
- Institute of Art History, Philipps-Universität Marburg
- Institute of Aesthetic Research
- International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art
- Iraqi art
- Italian Renaissance painting
- Italian Renaissance