HAMLET: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS: By th’ mass and ’tis—like a camel indeed. HAMLET: Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS: It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET: Or like a whale. POLONIUS: Very like a whale. [W]here art history is concerned, in the beginning was the eye, not the word. —Otto Pächt Why do we teach and study art history? A question that elicits a complicated answer. To learn about art, yes, but also to learn about the cultural setting in which art unfolds; in addition, to learn about—what to...