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This volume is a collection of papers presented at an international conference, cosponsored by the Center and the École du Louvre, held in Paris on October 29–31, 1984. The contributors are an international group of Watteau scholars and students of the period that includes the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the Régence. The essays consider theater, the arts, dance, music, and fashion from Watteau’s time, enabling us to understand better the artist’s milieu, what he took from it, what he contributed to it, and also how the “myth” of Watteau was created. 

This thirteen-volume series provides an annual record of research projects in the history of art and related disciplines sponsored by public and private foundations around the world during the period 1980–1994.

Celebrates the history of the Samuel H. Kress Professorship at the National Gallery of Art, providing summary accounts of the 32 illustrious scholars who held the professorship through 1995 and lists predoctoral fellows in residence during their respective tenures.

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art on December 6, 1949. Inspired by Paul and Mary Mellon, they were intended to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the fine arts.

The Latin American Fellowship Program began in 1994 as the first major research collaboration of the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH). It concluded with the publication of this research report.

Celebrating the first twelve years of the Edmond J. Safra Professorship at the Center and profiles the professors in residence from 2003–2014.

Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, this volume highlights the Center’s Kress Professors, 1995–2016, with a short reminiscence about each professor by a young scholar in residence during their term.

The complex facets of cubism remain relevant subjects in art history today, a century after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed the revolutionary style. This collection of essays presents new lines of inquiry and accounts of crucial moments in the reception of cubism by curators, artists, and critics.

Filling a broad gap in the history of modern art, this collection of 12 essays offers both an important revision of our understanding of this influential movement and a starting point for reflection on the origins of many forms of contemporary artistic practice.

In 1983, the Center convened an international group of architectural drawings specialists, the Architectural Drawings Advisory Group (ADAG), to build consensus concerning cataloguing standards for architectural drawings in both electronic and printed form. In 1986 the Foundation for Documents of Architecture (FDA) was established to promote ADAG’s recommendations in an automated cataloguing environment and to translate ADAG’s recommended standards into published guidelines.