Art History

Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted so...

This is the second series of a collection of caricatures and cartoons published in newspapers and journals worldwide during the period from the end...

DIGITAL UPDATE available for Fall 2021 classes For survey courses in Art History Experience the history of art through analysis of the objects the...

How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemor...

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici...

This collection is a three-volume facsimile edition in large folio format of the complete catalogues of the series of 6 major exhibitions of Ukiyoe...

Peter Fraser revisits stories told onscreen that in different ways all convey clear and ringing truths and touch the deepest human chords. Spanning...

This is the ninth part of the successful series supervised by Aiko Mabuchi, Director General, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, which prov...

Though the Drigung Kagyu was one of the most prominent and powerful schools of Tibetan Buddhism during its early period (12th - 14th century), its ...

Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even tra...

Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, ...

This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-length critical study to focus on the watercolours of multitalented British artist and designer...

Germaine Richier, the first woman to have an exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1956), is a remarkable figure in the worl...

Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, ...

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Writ...

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods ...

Peter Paul Rubens (15771640) brought the quality of coloring in copperplate engraving and the woodcut to new levels. Print interpretations of paint...

Die Draperie der Cappella Albertoni (1674/75) wird von der Autorin erstmals als Vorhang - Leitmotiv in Berninis bildhauerischem uvre und vor dem H...

Kaiser Maximilian I. setzte in seinen Gedechtnus-Projekten, in denen er sich und seine Dynastie in ewiger Erinnerung halten wollte, auf die Kraft d...