art history

1. 1.

   the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture

   Broaderhumanistic discipline

   Narrowericonology

Questions about art history

What does art history mean?

art history means "the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture".

Is art history a common word?

art history is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.