Art & Design Styles: Baroque

The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne This book provides t...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a remarkable knowledge ...

An expert look at the life and captivating work of the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, Rembrandt''s most famous pupil This book offers a close look at...

This absorbing introduction to the story of Rembrandt's rampant fame and influence in Britain is filled with beautiful images. The story of 'Rembr...

The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in the work of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), is given dramatic tension in thi...

Charles Le Brun''s drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

Each masterpiece of the series is a fascinating art-history novella and, at the same time, an invitation to the following tale, the next chapter in...

Why is something a masterpiece? Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams is about revisiting famous works of art that we may have studied in an art ...

The Haukohl Family stands in the wake of a lasting tradition of European and American collecting practices for the benefit of future generations. P...

Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new book: The often intimate, reflective and personal side to Rembrandts work in treatin...

A seventeenth century Spanish painter who continues to influence artists today, Velazquez is primarily known for his portraits of Spanish royalty a...

Bernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights and including discussions of the artists ...

Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent be...

The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making paintings that placed par...

Apart from a handful of art historians no one has ever heard of the Brussels painter Hendrick De Clerck (1560-1630). Nevertheless, De Clerck was a...

The Baroque, for many the most thrilling architectural style ever created, was born in Rome and reached its apogee in the work of three geniuses bo...

Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profess...

Published to coincide with the major exhibition at the National Gallery this autumn, here is the ultimate book on Rembrandts art and life his work...