Art History

Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaìzquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with r...

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array...

Analysis of political advertising tends to give music short shrift - which flies in the face of what we know about the power of music to set a mood...

Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual...

This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists whose work involves Rembrandt van R...

This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic...

This ground-breaking book brings theoretical perspectives from twenty-first century media, film, and cultural studies to medieval hagiography. Medi...

This innovative book narrates the history of a single objecta tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth ce...

Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets a...

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

Over the last century a growing number of visual artists have been captivated by the entwinements of beauty and power, truth and artifice, and the ...

In his own day, Godefridus Schalcken (16431706) was an internationally renowned Dutch painter, but little is known about the four years that he spe...

During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of mixed media recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: enclosed...

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Eu...

With new photography of extraordinarily rare works of art, this pioneering study features discoveries and research essential to understanding the o...

A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century German...

How do we experience disaster films in cinema? And where does disaster cinema come from? The two questions are more closely related than one might ...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Art Journal Prize from the College Art ...

Volume XXIII in the Corinth series is dedicated to the finds from the Gymnasium Area, excavated between 1965 and 1972 by James R. Wiseman and the U...

Sibonys meticulous engagement with the scavenged object, his reverence for the mundane, has seemingly been an influence on a host of emerging arti...