Two essays detail recently developed tools of scholarship: the Getty Research Portal and the immense collection of Max Hutzel’s photographs of Italian art and architecture

Kay Forsten Chair in European Art

Corey Keller

Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking—his Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums

describing the journey of Etruscan objects from creation to use

Greek Geometric Horse - Sculpture Reproduction rabbit Two essays detail recently developedAround 900 BC a change in style took place in ancient Greek art. Both in decorations and in the art of sculpting geometric patterns emerged, which were very much unlike the pre Hellenic style, which was customary at the time. Painters began to decorate their pottery with stylized, sketched silhouettes, a style which soon was adopted by sculptures. Pre eminently, a horse was suitable for this innovative, geometric simplification. Every bronze foundry