Art History

An elegant, concise, and generously illustrated exploration of Alexander the Great’s representations in art and literature through the agesIn this ...

The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through colorArchitectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance wer...

A brilliant colorist and masterful storyteller, Dutch mannerist Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638) wielded a remarkably skilled brush and the technical ab...

This revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet’s artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a n...

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks f...

Why Piranesi’s greatest works weren’t his famous prints but rather the books for which he made themA draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeol...

Das Buch führt von den russischen Avantgarden und ihrem Eintritt in die Sowjetpolitik zu den amerikanischen Künstlern, die 1989 Gesetzesentwürfe zu...

Carved for a Roman city prefect who was a newly baptized Christian at his death, the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is not only a magnificent example...

A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations ...

A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Weste...

This volume catalogs more than four hundred decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted...

The catalogue for the groundbreaking exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Nomads and Networks presents...

In the late 1970s, at the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young, largely auto-didact artists in China endeavored to create artwork tha...

Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil t...

Taking a new approach to medieval art, Meaning in Motion reveals the profound importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and intellectual e...

It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the though...

In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brue...

The first book to explore the role of images in philosophical thought and teaching in the early modern period Delving into the intersections betwe...

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout Chinese ...

This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world's leading historians of Chinese painting and calli...

Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and...

Presenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient ...

A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art   In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word w...

Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology...