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Current art history news, exhibitions, videos, reviews, & information posted on FACEBOOK by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
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Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
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Art History
Books by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
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Eye and Art in Ancient Greece: A Study in Archaeoaesthetics
Harvey Miller, 2018
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Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder
Harvey Miller, 2008
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Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome
Brill, 2004
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Fiction
Novels by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
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SITE INDEX
Contents Page
Prehistoric Art
Art in Ancient Egypt
Art in the Ancient Near East
Art in Ancient Greece
Art in Ancient Rome
Early Christian & Byzantine Art
Art in Early Europe
Islamic Art
Early Medieval Art
Gothic Art
Renaissance Art in Italy
Renaissance Art outside Italy
Baroque Art
18th-Century Art
19th-Century Art
20th-Century Art
Contemporary Art
Art in East Asia
Art in India & Southeast Asia
ART IN AFRICA
Art in the Americas
Art in Oceania
Prints & Photography
Art History Research Resources
Art History News, Blogs
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Art History
eBooks by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
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An Introduction to Art and Culture in Ancient Egypt.
Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 1
Apple Books, 2019
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A Survey Art in Ancient Egypt from Predynastic Times to the Graeco-Roman Period.
Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 2
Apple Books, 2019
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Art’s History in Europe Part 1: Prehistoric Europe, Egypt, Near East, Aegean, Greece
Apple Books, 2014
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The Visual Experience of ART
Apple Books, 2012
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Venus of Willendorf
Apple Books, 2013
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853 Beautiful Victorian Paintings
Apple Books, 2014
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ART IN AFRICA
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- African Art (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- African Christianity in Ethiopia
- African Christianity in Kongo
- African Influences in Modern Art
- African Lost-Wax Casting
- African Rock Art
- African Rock Art of the Central Zone
- African Rock Art of the Northern Zone
- African Rock Art of the Southern Zone
- African Rock Art: Game Pass
- African Rock Art: Tassili-n-Ajjer (?8000 B.C. –?)
- African Rock Art: The Coldstream Stone
- Afro-Portuguese Ivories
- The Age of Iron in West Africa
- Ana Nzinga: Queen of Ndongo
- Apollo 11 (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.) and Wonderwerk (ca. 8000 B.C.) Cave Stones
- Art and the Fulani/Fulbe People
- Art of the Asante Kingdom
- Arts of Power Associations in West Africa
- Arts of the San People in Nomansland
- Asante Royal Funerary Arts
- Asante Textile Arts
- The Bamana Ségou State
- Benin Chronology
- Divination and Senufo Sculpture in West Africa
- Dona Beatriz: Kongo Prophet
- The Empires of the Western Sudan
- The Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire
- The Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire
- The Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire
- Ethiopia's Enduring Cultural Heritage
- Exchange of Art and Ideas: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms
- Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–7th century)
- The Fulani/Fulbe People
- Gold in Asante Courtly Arts
- Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th century)
- Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh's Photographer
- Idia: The First Queen Mother of Benin
- Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.)
- Ife Pre-Pavement and Pavement Era (800–1000 A.D.)
- Ife Terracottas (1000–1400 A.D.)
- Igbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th century)
- Inland Niger Delta
- Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800
- Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Funerary Arts
- Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Textile Arts
- Kingdoms of Madagascar: Maroserana and Merina
- Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Kuba Kingdom
- Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Luba and Lunda Empires
- Kongo Ivories
- Lydenburg Heads (ca. 500)
- The Magic of Signs and Patterns in North African Art
- Mapungubwe (ca. 1050–1270)
- The Monumental Stelae of Aksum (3rd–4th century)
- Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.)
- Origins and Empire: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms
- Political African Women of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
- Portraits of African Leadership
- Portraits of African Leadership: Living Rulers
- Portraits of African Leadership: Memorials
- Portraits of African Leadership: Royal Ancestors
- The Portuguese in Africa, 1415–1600
- San Ethnography
- Senufo Arts and Poro Initiation in Northern Côte d'Ivoire
- Senufo Sculpture from West Africa: an influential exhibition at The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963
- Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa
- Trade Relations among European and African Nations
- The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th century)
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Tutsi Basketry
- Ways of Recording African History
- Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
- African Sculptural Art (African Votive Sculpture), papers by Herbert E. Roese, with links to
- Modern African Art: A Basic Reading List compiled by Janet L. Stanley, National Museum of African Art Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Africa-related images, including Ancient Egypt (African Studies, University of Pennsylvania), including
- African Sculpture
- Wooden Mask, Mali
- Standing Female Figure, Burkina Faso
- Wooden Mask, Liberia/Guinea
- Wooden Door, Ivory Coast
- Mask with Iron and Wood, Ivory Coast
- Gold Shield, Ivory Coast
- Wooden Mask, Nigeria
- Ivory Figure, Nigeria
- Wooden Mask with antelope skin, Nigeria
- Wooden Mask, Nigeria
- Standing Male Figure, Nigeria
- Female Bust, Nigeria
- Alligator Head, Nigeria
- Wooden Mask with feathers, Gabon
- Wooden Figure, Gabon
- Standing Male Figure 1, with nails, Zaire
- Standing Male Figure 2, with blades, Zaire
- Wooden Staff, Zaire
- Wooden Mask with raffia, Zaire
- Wooden Mask, Zaire
- Wooden Mask with beads, Zaire
- Wooden Mask, Zaire
- Wooden Stool, Zaire
- Seated Female Figure, Zaire
- Wooden Doll, Botswana
- Empires of the Western Sudan (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Bronzes from Ife and Benin (through Galerie Peter Herrmann)
- The Art of Africa, links and images, through Mike Gunther's Timelines of Art History: The World
- Africa: The Art of a Continent (Guggenheim Museum, New York), with a link to a A Clickable Map of the Art of the Africa Continent, with further links to:
- Great Zimbabwe (four photographs)
- Mystery of Great Zimbabwe (Peter Tyson, PBS Nova Online)
- Riddle of Great Zimbabwe (abstract of article by Roderick J. McIntosh in Archaeology magazine)
- Ashanti Gold Weights (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning (Exhibition, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia), with links to:
- African Art: Historical Photographs
- G. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture, with links to
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