CLEVELAND, Ohio — Gothic art and architecture is usually associated with soaring vertical lines — church naves and belltowers, tall, pointed arches, sculptures of saints with long, slender bodies. The ...

The last time anyone attempted to catalogue all known Gothic ivory sculpture was a three-volume publication from a French scholar in 1924, but now the Gothic Ivories Project at London's Courtauld ...

On the long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany’s greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a ...

Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art? -- Western tradition -- Artistic impulse -- Chronology -- Why is art valued? -- Material value -- Intrinsic value -- Religious value -- Nationalistic ...