liberal arts vs art history

art history vs liberal arts

liberal arts and art history both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
liberal arts	Yes	No	No	No
art history	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, art history is a hyponym of liberal arts; that is, art history is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than liberal arts:

liberal arts: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
art history: the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture

Other hyponyms of liberal arts include neoclassicism, classicalism, classicism, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, interior design, English, history, chronology, beaux arts, fine arts, performing arts, Occidentalism, Oriental Studies, Orientalism, philosophy, literary study, library science, linguistics, philology, musicology, Sinology, stemmatics, stemmatology, trivium, quadrivium, game studies, ludology, Etruscology, area studies, film studies, cultural studies, theatre studies, theatrology, textual scholarship.

liberal arts (noun)	art history (noun)
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)	the academic discipline that studies the development of painting and sculpture

Difference between liberal arts and art history

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