One of the curators' interests is how symbols functioned in Vermeer's art to communicate religious ideas. "They helped in presenting his paintings as a kind of virtuous example." More like this ...

Abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's drip paintings may not be entirely abstract. According to new research from UC San ...

Art historians have posited that the red marks on the chained unicorn do not represent blood, but rather pomegranate juice dripping from the tree above; pomegranate being a symbol of marriage and ...

Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known ... But Laurencin’s inclusion of enigmatic symbolism and intimate gestures — and near-complete exclusion of men in her work ...

Art historians have generally dismissed the ... She argued that the importance of Jung’s archetypal symbolism “has not been sufficiently explored, nor has it even received proper credit ...

Buddhist thangka paintings are visually captivating and impressive — but there is more to them than meets the eye. Thangkas often focus on a specific deity and scene, and their form and surrounding ...

Arghavan Khosravi’s symbol-laden paintings, which often depict women with long, flowing hair bound by cords or shackles, allude to women’s rights issues that have recently sparked protests ...

Humans Mysterious symbols in cave paintings may be earliest form of writing. Stone Age people in Europe appear to have recorded the reproductive habits of animals with markings on cave paintings ...