art history Meaning of "art history"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture

Usage(s):

  1. Bredekamp, a scholar of both art history and the history of science, says this latest find shows vividly how art and science worked together in Galileo's mind.
  2. She went to Smith College and she was an art history major, which her mother opposed as foolish.
  3. Gluck is very eager to make sure everyone knows he has a degree in art history and is not just some smut-happy computer geek.
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