Art History

January 21, 2026

Discover Your Pet’s Art History Doppelgänger With This Fun and Informative App

When Google Arts & Culture released its “Art Selfie” feature in 2018, it instantly became a hit. In its first three years, the app sifted through more than 120 million selfies, matching faces with doppelgängers across art history. Most people have used—or are at least familiar with—Art Selfie, but not many seem to know about its “pawesome” counterpart.

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January 1, 2026

Tsuchiya Kōitsu and the Rise of Shin-Hanga Prints in 20th Century Japan

In the early 1900s, Japan had undergone some dramatic changes. Just a few decades before, the country had opened itself up after more than 200 years of self-isolation, and the dual forces of industrialization and internationalism had begun taking root. It was within this shifting environment that Japanese artists revived ukiyo-e, a traditional form of woodblock printing, as shin-hanga (literally meaning “new prints”).

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November 27, 2025

Leonardo da Vinci’s Largest Collection of Drawings and Writings is Now Completely Digitized

When listing the world’s most prominent “Renaissance men,” Leonardo da Vinci would appear near, if not at, the top. He succeeded in or at least dabbled in fields as disparate as engineering, anatomy, cartography, painting, astronomy, and even paleontology. Perhaps nothing demonstrates the breadth of his abilities better than his notebooks, the largest of which has been digitized in its entirety by the Visual Agency, in collaboration with Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana and Mondadori Portfolio.

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October 10, 2025

Monet’s Venetian Cityscapes Are Coming to the Brooklyn Museum

In 1908, Claude Monet paid his first—and only—visit to Venice, at the encouragement of his wife Alice. At first, he was reluctant to leave his home in Giverny, but it didn’t take long for him to recognize and ultimately treasure Venice’s singular cityscape. It was there that Monet produced his last new works to ever be shown publicly during his lifetime, and it was there that he renewed his technical, thematic, and artistic skills.

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