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The earliest photographs—often associated with small, faded, sepia-toned images—may seem to belong to a bygone era, but many of the conventions established during photography’s earliest years persist ...

Medieval Europeans believed that the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets directly affected their lives on earth. The position of these celestial bodies had the power to not only influence ...

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Lantern slides taken by Michel de Maynard, a Franciscan missionary in China, document Chinese culture and missionary activity during the last days of the Qing dynasty, the revolution of 1911, and the ...

The Getty Museum established its Sculpture Department in 1984. Since then its holdings have grown to encompass some 170 works of European sculpture ranging in date from the Renaissance to the early ...

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To late-twentieth-century eyes, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s La Promenade raises few questions and poses few problems; indeed, little has been written about the picture, despite its regular appearance in ...

The impact of light on works of art and archival materials has long been an issue of concern to conservators and other museum professionals, yet the literature on this subject has never been ...