Art & Design Styles: Romanticism

This fascinating book tells the story of a little-known masterpiece by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822)-the statue of George Washing...

Featuring works by Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein and Robert Longo, Proof offers insight into the singularity of vision through which artists ca...

Shadows and light, high drama and the supernatural, these elements are hallmarks of Henry Fuseli''s paintings. Accom- panying a long-overdue show o...

At times regarded as the first modern artist, Goya was both a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a commentator on the tumultuous events of his ...

This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake...

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

A revelatory study of one of the 18th centurys greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Josep...

Preface and Acknowledgments by Washburn S. Oberwager In 1865 the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church and his wife, Isabel, traveled to...

Nineteenth-Century European Painting: From Barbizon to Belle Époque represents a comprehensive guide to the range of stylistically diverse genres o...

This groundbreaking reconstruction of Goya's so-called 'Witches and Old Women' album will offer rich insights into the artist's concerns and preocc...

The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, claimed Caspar David Friedrich, but also what he sees in himself. He should have a dialog...

ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A biography as rich with co...

William Blake is a universal artist - an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires t...

William Blake is a universal artist - an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires t...

'To critics who said that the full-lipped so-called 'Beardsley mouth', which adorned many of his women, was 'inexpressive and ugly', the artist cou...

Scholars and enthusiasts alike will revel in this ambitious two-volume catalogue raisonné of Thomas Gainsboroughs portraits and copies of Old Maste...