Art History

How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with ...

Drawn entirely from the collections of Grolier Club members, this catalogue is devoted to the husband and wife duo William (18241889) and Helen All...

The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commerci...

The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive...

Showcases the extraordinary work of notable American and European postwar artistsSeattle art collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis were fr...

How museums visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of Am...

Angel Vergaras work tests the limits of art and reality by questioning the way the contemporary image shapes the intermingled public and private sp...

An exploration of the treasures of Japanese art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals a wealth of fascinating works dating from prehistoric tim...

Presented in very clear and accessible language, Roman Art offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roma...

Erstmals wird in vorliegender Publikation das Diplomatenporträt als eigene kunstwissenschaftliche Kategorie definiert. Bereits im 16. und 17. Jahrh...

The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, the model for the Getty Villa in Malibu, is one of the world's earliest systematically investigated archaeolog...

Die Studie verbindet einen monographischen mit einem systematischen Ansatz: Ausgehend von einer umfassenden Analyse des Werks des Florentiner Künst...

Examining the vivid, often apocalyptic church murals of Peru from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century, Heaven, Hell, and Every...