Open research questions in Historical Art and Culture Studies
50 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,744 Historical Art and Culture Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
What the literature leaves open
The article discusses the poorly investigated painting heritage of the Dotnuva Bernardine Church, which covers the period from the monastery establishment in 1701 until its closure in 1864.
For physicists Michael Faraday and Charles Wheatstone, and photographic pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot, transient phenomena could be studied through careful observation and manipulation of the patterns wrought on these different surfaces, and through an understanding of how the imaging process unfolded through time.
Dust Plate, Retina, Photograph: Imaging on Experimental Surfaces in Early Nineteenth-Century Physics · 2015 · DOIThe conceit of a child’s unmediated encounter with galleries of antique art that opens Vernon Lee’s “The Child in the Vatican” (1881) seems designed to evoke that well-worn contrast between an idealized vision of antiquity based on sparse knowledge and conjecture characteristic of earlier eras and a more informed—because more material—encounter with particular objects typical of later periods.
The reasoning mind—the working mind possessed by those who think in a space that is seemingly and paradoxically unlimited by the bounds of tradition but that is, in fact "ever bounded by Truth and Justice" (1000)—is able not only to perceive the beautiful, but also to create (to "realize") the beautiful.
She makes the relevance of his artwork for the theatre artist abundantly clear: “Theater, poetry, writing, drawing are so inextricably mingled, still more in the last two years of his life, that it is scarcely possible to speak of writing without evoking drawing or of the latter without theater or poetry coming forth” (37).
“From its foundation in 1851, it met the printing needs of the parliament and the Public Service, but a little known aspect of its work was the printing of non-government books and pamphlets.
1) in the Boymansvan Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam to the work of Hubert and/or Jan van Eyck has proved difficult to establish, mainly because relatively little is known about their output apart from Jan van Eyck's signed paintings of 1432-41.
Een nader onderzoek van 'De drie Maria's aan het H. Graf' - een schilderij uit de 'Groep Van Eyck' in Rotterdam · 1987 · DOIIt is instructive also that the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum and Winterthur both have rooms from the Samuel Wentworth 279 CURATOR and the Thomas Hart houses; obviously American seventeenth-century rooms that can be purchased and moved to museum are scarce indeed.
POINT OF VIEW IN KEYSERLING 281 modal form mußte, and by the indefinite pronoun man, erlebte Rede, as Keyserling uses it, may be limited to a single short sentence or may consist of several consecutive lines.
In one sense, therefore, this is a book for the specialist, and at first sight it would seem further limited by the fact that Sir Frank Stenton has considered only the evolution of the formal solemn diploma, the royal grants of lands and privileges from the late seventh century to the time of the Conquest, and not directly the Latin decrees of ecclesias- tical synods, nor the wills and writs printed by Dr.
Leaving the haven of 'The Speculator, we are cast upon a sea of troubles ; it is not so much that German literature is neglected or contemned, as that praise or disapproval-and both are to be found in abundance appear to be based on insufficient knowledge of the sub ject.
Evans' speculative reconstruction of the site in reinforced concrete remains controversial, and some of his interpretations are disputed, but his work was pioneering and published in several volumes between 1921 and 1935.
Also, the sad process of how the paintings became orphaned from the matching inscriptions, which were still with them in the mid-20th century, has not been described before.
Abstract The precise nature of Horace Walpole's sexuality remains elusive, in spite of the extent of his surviving correspondence — which is vast but with notable and possibly strategic gaps.
The psychodynamic analysis is limited by the constitution of its practice to the study of the process of image production and the artistic imaginary, rather than to the investigation of man or the artist out of reach by means of figurative and symbolic language.
This essay locates these images within multiple contexts: the technologies of their production, growingsentimental ideals of middle-class motherhood, and the ways that carework and its cultural (in)visibilities varied widely by gender, race, and class in the period.
Both the 17th century courtly spectacles and the Venetian public theater with many king-led combat dances thus extend our knowledge about costuming – sufficiently to warrant further research into the seventeenth century roots of Korčula moreška costuming.
In tracing antagonistic and largely forgotten discourses, the article seeks to shed light on a larger subject that is still underexplored: the complex entanglement of architecture, religion, and race in the long nineteenth century.
These two working relationships point not only to the power of artists serving as each other’s muses, but also to the need for further investigation into the value, and exploitation, of friendships for Rembrandt.
What is lacking, however, is an examination of House within the larger context of visual culture and what it may, or may not, mean for contemporary viewers.
The article identifies changes between the originals and movie versions of the above dramas, and outlines possible directions for further investigation of this problem.
THE MORALITY OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THE XX CENTURY IN THE WORKS OF CLASSICS OF WORLD LITERATURE · 2020 · DOIThe collecting and cultural signification of oriental manuscripts in nineteenth-century Britain are a hitherto under-researched field that is ripe for re-evaluation in the light of postcolonial theory.
‘Spoils of Many a Distant Land’: The Earls of Crawford and the Collecting of Oriental Manuscripts in the Nineteenth Century · 2020 · DOIHowever, Knight has remained a mysterious and little studied figure; the significance of his imprisonment and of the fact that his was the only scheme to be published remain unexplored.
Print Culture and the Rebuilding of London after the Fire: The Presumptuous Proposals of Valentine Knight · 2017 · DOIAlthough direct evidence of how these prints were used is scarce, literary analysis indirectly reveals how consumers in the past made narratives into popular culture and rejected attempts from the dominant culture to impose certain representations upon the reader.
Since the 1980s his art has been the subject of growing attention by scholars, mostly in Quebec and writing in French, but Tehariolin is still little known in the United States.
Self-Portraiture and Commodification in the Work of Huron/Wendat Artist Zacharie Vincent, aka “Le Dernier Huron” · 2015 · DOI
Most-cited papers in Historical Art and Culture Studies
- The Palace of Minos · Artium Quaestiones · 1921 · 85 citations
- Dust Plate, Retina, Photograph: Imaging on Experimental Surfaces in Early Nineteenth-Century Physics · Science in Context · 2015 · 16 citations
- Broadside Ballads and Occupational Identity in Early Modern England · Huntington Library Quarterly · 2016 · 10 citations
- Height and health in late eighteenth-century England · Population Studies · 2020 · 9 citations
- Seriality, Miscellaneity, and Compression in Nineteenth-Century Print · Victorian Studies · 2020 · 9 citations
- Laocoön’s Scream; or, Lessing Redux · New German Critique · 2021 · 9 citations
- Nathan Meyer-Rothschild’s Reproduction of Business Masculinity in the Portrait <i>A View from the Royal Exchange.</i> A Historical, Bourdieusian and Visual Semiotic Exploration · Journal of Organizational Sociology · 2023 · 8 citations
- Wittgenstein, Loos, and the Critique of Ornament · Estetika The European Journal of Aesthetics · 2021 · 8 citations
- Charles Barbier: A hidden story · Disability Studies Quarterly · 2021 · 8 citations
- Hercules Subdued: The Visual Rhetoric of the Kneeling Slave · Slavery and Abolition · 2012 · 7 citations
Most recent work
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- Susanna Hall, Richard Grace, and Queen Henrietta Maria: The Flowering of a Shakespeare Myth · Shakespeare Quarterly · 2026
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- THE PROSE POEM AS A PROCESSION OF PRE-CINEMATIC IMAGES: RENDERING THE DISSOLVING SEQUENCE IN LITERATURE FROM "GASPARD DE LA NUIT" (1842) TO "ILLUMINATIONS" (1895) · Prace Polonistyczne · 2026
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