Art & Design Styles: Baroque

Ab 1789 brachen auch Künstler im Zuge der Emigration zahlreicher Menschen aus Frankreich auf. Die meisten trieb der Niedergang des Kunstmarkts auße...

Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoratio...

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of...

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rub...

In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and pr...

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722-1789) was an important figure for Kassel. His decades of activity as court painter to the landgraves of H...

Der gebürtige Mailänder Camillo Rusconi (16581728) gilt als der bedeutendste römische Bildhauer des Spätbarock. In dieser Studie widmet sich Frank ...

Zar Peter der Große legte 1714 nahe St. Petersburg den Grundstein zu Schloss Peterhof, dem russischen Versailles, das zwei Jahrhunderte lang als S...

Der heutige Museumsbesucher orientiert sich an eingeübten Verhaltensmustern, die eine eigene Geschichte haben. In dieser Studie wird am Beispiel de...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at onc...

The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the e...

Die Sammlungsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit ist von einer zunehmenden Differenzierung der Sammlungsinteressen, von einer Internationalisierung des ...

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long bee...

The striving for a royal crown, the ennobling of a clever financial policy, or the immortalizing of glorious victoriesall of this is reflected in t...

Bronze has long been used by sculptors to create complex and beautiful forms, three-dimensional realizations of the most vivid human emotions and e...

This book explores the visual and literary culture of transforming perceptions of children and childhood in France during the nineteenth century. C...

Luca Giordano (Naples, 16341705) was one of Italys most celebrated Baroque painters when he travelled to Florence, where his art was already apprec...

Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole ...

The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious womens communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and ima...

Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; th...