Art History

'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes th...

Even though it was a time of near financial ruin in Flanders, Baroque art flourished during this period thanks to the patronage of an arts-minded a...

To date, most criticism of print and digital technotexts literary objects that foreground the role of their media of inscription has emphasized t...

The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. Here was a man whose astonishing gifts were a...

The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of ...

Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt...

During the early modern period sculptors experimented with forms, typologies, and materials of their art in unprecedented ways. Sculpture was at th...

During the early modern period sculptors experimented with forms, typologies, and materials of their art in unprecedented ways. Sculpture was at th...

An intriguing new look at the historical significance of Rembrandt''s representations of Christ With the creation of the dramatic Supper at Emmaus ...

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo style was distinguished by a remarkable facility, exuberanc...

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is the most important painter of sketches in the history of European art. His Italian and Flemish predecessors had fo...

The Academie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibit...

The prevalence of sharing economy generates different consuming patterns. It is also possible to share working space. This book collects latest co-...

Books on art history are nearly always lavishly illustrated with quality colour reproductions of famous masterpieces. Yet this has not always been ...

Every extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish newly updated volume, the long-awaited result of more than 20 years of resear...

The controversial, ground-breaking biography of Caravaggio 'A great read; it grabs, it kicks, it lives ... Feel the force of Caravaggio's cutting ...

By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority...

This fascinating book offers the first comprehensive study in English of Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682), the indispensable architect of the Veneti...

One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition fr...

Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materia...

This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics...

George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This catalogue presents a selectio...

A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraitur...

Examining Bernini's works from 1665 on, from Paris and Rome, this book demonstrates the wealth of material still to be drawn from close visual and ...

The Rawlinson collection of seal matrices in the University of Oxford is the most important early collection of European seal matrices to survive. ...

One hundred masterpieces of European art and arts and crafts of the eighteenth century form a panorama of innovation, design and expert realisation...

It was a century of war (mostly) and peace (occasionally), of extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, gargantuan appetites and desperate famines...

This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán (16521706), a prolific and celeb...

Hans Holbein the Younger's life is discovered through his artworks, his family, his patrons and the people who met him. Born into a family of tal...

He was one of the last great court artists and at the same time a significant trailblazer for modern art: Francisco de Goya. The Fondation Beyeler ...

The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce, scienceand...

Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms...

Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius ...

The romantic and enigmatic character of this picture has inspired many theories about its subject, meaning, history, and even its attribution to Re...

A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.Roberta Smiths Top Art Books of 2019, The New York Times T...

The most complete publication to date on the complex story of the Caravaggesque style. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is probably th...

This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late M...

Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the se...

This is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and moder...