Art History

This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at th...

 A history of Germans attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution.   For German philosophers at the turn of the nineteenth ce...

In 1823, the fourth-century basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome was destroyed by a catastrophic fire, prompting debate as to whether, ...

What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But ar...

In the mid- to late seventeenth century, a number of Dutch painters created a new type of refined genre painting that was much admired by elite col...

Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and ne...

This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its image...

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism   Beginning in the 1920s, ...

Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and g...

The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of inn...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the...

Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties wi...

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise tha...

This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainlan...

Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only a...

A unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries   Still life played an imp...

She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden or Copenh...

These vibrant Mélanges bring together texts by colleagues and friends to celebrate the life and work of an exceptional scientist, Jean-Loïc Le Quel...

This volume brings together over 25 scholarly essays, reviews and shorter contributions by Peter Hecht, preceded by an introduction on what he thin...

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