- Smarthistory
Smarthistory® believes art has the power to transform lives and to build understanding across cultures The brilliant histories of art belong to everyone, no matter their background Smarthistory’s free, award-winning digital content unlocks the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging to more people, in more places, than any other publisher
- Smarthistory – Our mission
Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred scholars and artists who contribute because they believe that high-quality art history should be available to everyone
- Smarthistory – AP®︎ Art History
With more than 800 contributors from hundreds of colleges, universities, museums, and research centers across the globe, Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world We created Smarthistory to provide students around the world with the highest-quality educational resources for art and cultural heritage—for free
- Smarthistory – The Basics of Art History
With more than 800 contributors from hundreds of colleges, universities, museums, and research centers across the globe, Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world We created Smarthistory to provide students around the world with the highest-quality educational resources for art and cultural heritage—for free
- Smarthistory – Reframing Art History a new kind of textbook
Global perspectives through an open-access multimedia "textbook" for the 21st century Reframing Art History, an open-access multimedia art history "textbook," gives you a guided journey through the living, breathing, meaningful side of art history We’re less concerned with names and dates than with meaning and movement With chapters developed by a group of more than 50 experts, it
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Smarthistory® believes art has the power to transform lives and to build understanding across cultures The brilliant histories of art belong to everyone, no matter their background Smarthistory’s free, award-winning digital content unlocks the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging to more people, in more places, than any other publisher
- Smarthistory books
Smarthistory’s free, award-winning digital content unlocks the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging to more people, in more places, than any other publisher
- Smarthistory – Titian, Venus of Urbino
A highly naturalistic, visual seduction Who is she? Art historians cannot agree Numerous identities are proposed for this nude woman seductively reclining in bed as she stares outward from an elegant bedroom Interpretations of the figure in Titian’s oil painting on canvas, now referred to as the Venus of Urbino, range from the divine to the vulgar She might be the goddess Venus, a young
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