Art History

Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museum...

The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern, and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837Present Day provides comprehensive coverage of t...

The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern, and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837Present Day provides comprehensive coverage of t...

A window into the world of 1970s painting through the work of 30 women artists Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New Y...

Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber ...

From faithful apostle and seductress to feminist icon, Mary Magdalenes many complex roles in Christian history have fascinated us for 2000 years. I...

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it ...

Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the works aestheti...

In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawn suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the c...

From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulch...

Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Music ProgrammeExamines how the making, marketin...

From Dawoud Bey and Lorna Simpson to Sondra Perry and Kerry James Marshall, a multiethnic group of artists explores what it means to be seen, not s...

Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de Medicis impact on the visual world of her ti...

In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; pract...

Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and ca...

Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) were highly visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal châteaux and, after 1737, in ...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Verones...

Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture - Bellini's and Tit...

Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy - artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and lawyers - ...

Bringing into relief the singularity of Barry's unswerving commitment to his vision for history painting despite adverse cultural, political and co...

In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online ...