Art history

academic study of objects of art in their historical development

thumb|The growth rings of a tree at Bristol Zoo, [[England. Each ring represents one year; the outside rings, near the bark, are the youngest]] thumb|A "tree cookie" cross-section of a Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii|Coast Douglas-fir tree displayed in the [[Royal Ontario Museum. The tree was over 500 years old when it was cut down in British Columbia in the 1890s. The markings indicating historical events were added in the 1920s.]] Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

thumb|Hans Holbein the Younger|Holbein's The Ambassadors (1533) is a complex work whose iconography remains the subject of debate.

national Dutch documentation center of art history

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literary form

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Iconology is a method of interpretation in cultural history and the history of the visual arts used by Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and their followers that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical background of themes and subjects in the visual arts. Though Panofsky differentiated between iconology and iconography, the distinction is not very widely followed, "and they have never been given definitions accepted by all iconographers and iconologists". Few 21st-century authors continue to use the term "iconology" consistently, and instead use iconography to cover both areas of scholarship.

institution of higher education and French Grande École in Paris

process of restoring and/or conserving tangible cultural heritage, including artworks, architecture, archaeology, museum collections, partly or in full, to original state and/or condition, without changing constructive and/or characteristic elements

university in London

archaeological sub-discipline based on natural science methodes

comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist

thumb|right|225px|"Testing the Wine", English School, 19th century.

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20th-century art conservation project

study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style

research institution associated with the University of London

thumb|upright=1.35|Diana and Actaeon (Titian)|Diana and Actaeon by [[Titian has a full provenance covering its passage through several owners and four countries since it was painted for Philip II of Spain in the 1550s.]]

subfield of social anthropology for the development of art

collaborative database for image and data holdings on art and architecture of around 80 cultural and scientific institutions

art collection including some Nazi loot discovered in the Munich apartments of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012

Project to research Rembrandt works using forensic methods and building a database

field in which animals are studied in a variety of cross-disciplinary ways

research Institute

Altermodern, a blend word defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, is an attempt at contextualizing art made in today's global context as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism. It is also the title of the Tate Britain's fourth Triennial exhibition curated by Bourriaud.

symbol of an international treaty protecting cultural goods

disputes about what should and should not be classified as art

interdisciplinary field of media

cultural institution

Process for removal of wall paintings

Index numbers of the catalog raisonné of art by the Wildenstein institute, today Wildenstein Plattner Institute

professional responsible for the preservation of artistic and cultural artifacts

first produced work of art in a number of versions

theory that advances in realism in Western art since the Renaissance is mainly due to optical instruments

French research institute, located in Paris, covering the history of art and architecture

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Smarthistory is an independent nonprofit organization and the official partner of the Khan Academy for art history. It is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

body of law that regulates and is applied to artists, fine art and cultural property

Artstor is a nonprofit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than 2.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, and Shared Shelf, a Web-based cataloging and image management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections.