Example Sentences

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Some 200 works, created from the Renaissance to the present, look to upend conventional art-historical thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

Soldiers are as likely to intrude as garden gnomes, ghosts are given equal status with art-historical allusions.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023

The “Chimera” series features these complex hybrids of European art-historical figures donning African masks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022

It’s a term that is not unproblematic, as so many art-historical terms can be.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2021

"We are talking here about items of inestimable art-historical and cultural-historical value," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2019