The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is currently closed for renovations, but one morning this month, about a dozen high school students were granted special access to the museum’s Study Room.
There they hovered over the richly detailed satirical...
In 1999, Paul Messier analyzed two prints by the renowned photographer Lewis Hine that were suspected of being forgeries.
A photo conservator in private practice at the time, Messier wrote a report laying out the evidence he had gathered, which strongly...
Since its discovery by modern researchers a century ago, an ancient structure known as the “Christian building” has become widely considered the cornerstone of early Christian architecture. Constructed around 232 C.E. in the ancient city of Dura-Europos,...
In an engraving dating to 1677, a broad, tree-lined path leads to the stately stone façade of the freshly reconstructed Bethlehem Royal Hospital in Moorfields, London. Statues crown the hospital’s entrance gate. An elaborate cupola stretches from its roof...
