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Gerhard Richter, Onkel Rudi (Uncle Rudi), 1965, oil on canvas, 87 x 50 cm, Památník Lidice / Lidice Memorial, Czech Republic © Gerhard Richter 2023 (16032023)

Gerhard Richter was born today in 1932. Here is a short introductory essay from Smarthistory on a formative work, Uncle Rudy:

smarthistory.org/gerhard-rich...

A neat dolmen-style burial chamber in a grassy clearing. There are plantation spruce behind, and ferns and smaller trees. It looks damply cool and enticing as I'm posting this on a very hot day.

#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday

Gwal y Filiast #Llanboidy #Carmarthenshire #Wales (2016)

Jacopo Sansovino, Loggetta, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1538–46 (attached to the reconstructed medieval bell tower) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Please see the essay for a detailed description

smarthistory.org/jacopo-sanso...

a new #Smarthistory essay by Dr. Letha Ch'ien on one of the most seen/overlooked #Renaissance buildings in #Italy

#architecture #ArchitecturalHistory #Venice #Venetian

Straight on photo of the palace looking across the reflecting pool against a bright blue sky. Reflections of the columns and the small potted bushes that line the pool can be seen in the water. Trees frame the palace in the background.

Chihil Sutun, a Safavid palace
a new #Smarthistory essay by Dr. Samira Fathi
#Safavid #Iran #architecture #architecturalhistory

smarthistory.org/chihil-sutun/

YouTube video by Smarthistory Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), Aeronauts, Steu and Cuda

youtu.be/G2xtG2Jm5AQ
#aeronauts #art #arthistory #IndigenousFuturism #ceramics

YouTube video by Smarthistory Edward Burne-Jones, The Beguiling of Merlin

youtu.be/UmCO5hai_Yo
#Merlin #art #arthistory #magic #19thCentury #Britain

YouTube video by Smarthistory Federal Hall National Memorial

youtu.be/bj0CtjIUgkQ
a new Smarthistory video

#architecture #architecturalhistory #art #arthistory #UShistory #history #neoclassicism #GreekRevival

YouTube video by Smarthistory Meta Warrick Fuller, Emancipation

youtu.be/OjOLW8K7iaY
Reimagining representations of emancipation 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a sculpture by Meta Warrick Fuller commissioned by W. E. B. Du Bois

#art #arthistory #emancipation #womenartists

YouTube video by Smarthistory Anita Fields, Elements of Being

After today, you might find a little solace in
youtu.be/dSL8WQWdiKo

#Osage #NativeAmerican #art #arthistory

Sanctuary, Richardson, Trinity Church Henry Hobson Richardson, Trinity Church (interior), Copley Square, Boston, 1872–77

And a view of the sanctuary
www.flickr.com/photos/profz...

Steven Zucker, Smarthistory co-founder Explore Steven Zucker, Smarthistory co-founder’s 17,077 photos on Flickr!

HH Richardson's Trinity Church magnificent interior is packed with glass (& painting) by John La Farge, Edward Burne-Johns (w/William Morris & Co), as well as others including Margaret Redmond

Photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/profz...
#CreativeCommons #architecture #HHRichardson

You do remember correctly.

YouTube video by Smarthistory Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
a new Smarthistory video

#art #arthistory #feminism
youtu.be/4amoxcedL_0

Wonderfully descriptive word, perfect.

If you'd like to learn more about the history of A.I.R. and other early alternative art spaces in New York City, see Dr. Courtney Fiske's essay on Smarthistory: smarthistory.org/alternative-...

#artists #opportunity
A.I.R. Gallery submit thru June 25

support A.I.R. by donating a postcard-sized work for its annual postcard show, Wish You Were Here. They're sold for $45 and all proceeds go to benefit A.I.R. and its mission to advance the work of women and non-binary artists

You might like our short video about Arbus's A Box of Ten Photographs: smarthistory.org/diane-arbus-...

So generous, thank you!

Cattedrale di Palermo, Palermo PA (Sicilia) 🇮🇹

Corona di Costanza d'Aragona, 1220-1222 ca, oro, argento d'orato e filigranato, smalti, perle, pietre policrome.

emiliaromanica.com/2025/06/02/

📷 @emilia_romanica　
20 agosto 2024

Hans Memling, Christ Blessing Hans Memling, Christ Blessing, oil on panel, 35.1 x 25.1 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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detail from a new photo set just posted

YouTube video by Smarthistory Raven Custalow, Puttawus

Reclaiming cultural heritage one feather at a time
Raven Custalow, Puttawus
a new Smarthistory video

youtu.be/lzQqHLU-s6c
#art #arthistory #featherwork #NativeAmerican

Thank you. Her work is always such a treat, and too rarely seen.

YouTube video by Smarthistory Philip Johnson and John Burgee, The AT&T Building (NYC)

Fresh Smarthistory!
youtu.be/yGxPKaanF50

#postmodern #architecture #architecturalhistory #PhilipJohnson

Dyce is amazing.

YouTube video by Smarthistory Fashion and alienation in 1960s New York, Marisol's The Party

We made a video with Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Toledo Museum of Art about this Marisol:
youtu.be/y2P7GMce9Og

Vefa Church-Mosque/Molla Gürani Mosque, a Middle Byzantine church traditionally identified as the church of St. Theodore
Photos taken today

That whole set of panels at the museum is wonderful.

YouTube video by Smarthistory William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858

youtu.be/7Ac7MeP00Dk

This little-known painting deserves more recognition
#art #arthistory #landscape #Victorian #science #painting

Central panel (detail), Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480–1505, oil on panel, 220 x 390 cm (Museo del Prado, Madrid) showing an oversized owl being embraced by a nude man, a large duck stretched across the top, a very large and invented flower, and a nude couple caressing each other within a large translucent sphere .

"Why art history isn't like math"
a new Smarthistory essay aimed at students and others unfamiliar with the Humanities:
smarthistory.org/why-art-hist...

#arthistory #humanities #education