Art History

Told with exceptional scholarship, wit and humanity; the book itself is a ravishingly beautiful object - World of Interiors   Geraghty excels in ...

This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the mag...

What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ...

This vibrant catalogue presents the work of contemporary artist Harmonia Rosales. Featuring over twenty paintings and a monumental sculptural insta...

The must-have classic work on early Japanese photography!Writer Bennett crafted this beautiful and educational book from a collection of 350 old an...

The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered...

Das »lange« 19. Jahrhundert ist eine Zeit der romantischen Verzauberung, aber auch der Beschleunigung, der Nationenbildung sowie der Industrialisie...

Ilanotparchment sheets presenting the kabbalistic tree of lifehave been at the center of Jewish mystical practice for the past seven hundred years....

This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. Following the non-linea...

This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown be...

In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period (476221 BCE). Analy...

How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to int...

Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of...

Jane Alexander is one of the most significant South African artists working today. The artist's hybrid mutants speak to the porous borders between ...

The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesth...

Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. Th...

Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of...

Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome is the first book to explore the intersection between Roman Republican building practices and politics...

When we sing lines in which a fifteenth-century musician uses ethereal polyphony to complain mundanely about money or hoarseness, more than half a ...

With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Lati...

This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of compar...

In this book, Julia Guernsey examines the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community in a...