Visual Arts Story Briefs

What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).

Saadi (Sa'di) Shirazi - often referred to only by his first name - was a Persian poet who lived in the late-12th / early 13th centuries.

Embedded with American forces on Saipan, W.

As U.S. infantry troops took their positions on the 6th of July, 1944, they were unaware that opposing forces were about to engage in a mass attack, u...

Matthew Paris, who died in 1259, created this illumination depicting Saladin and Guy de Lusignan fighting over a relic known as the "Sacred Cross" dur...

This image depicts Sam, a monkey who traveled to space during an American space launch.

Image of a drawing depicting Samuel Beckles at his legendary excavation in 1857 on the cliffs of Durlston Bay.

Making their way through the various parts of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil come to the "Ninth Circle of Hell."  There they see a gigantic figure...

Thanks to the sophisticated technology of the Cassini orbiting space telescope, we are able to see things never-before possible. This image, for exam...

Before Rome's legions left the Empire's province of Britannia - the country we know today as Britain - Saxon raiders were already terrorizing the loca...

President Lincoln was sitting in a red rocking chair when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. This image depicts that rocking chair.

This image depicts Heinrich Schliemann before he began his excavations at the Hisarlik Mound.

Scott Hatteberg rejoined the Oakland A's, in 2011, as a special adviser to Billy Beane, the team's general manager.

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