Art History

The Wallace Collection has one of the most important collections of French eighteenth-century gilt bronze in the world. The Wallace Collection has...

John Constable is one of the greatest painters of the English weather. His depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape pai...

A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonards paintings known as the figures de fantaisie, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagi...

An art-oriented biography of the mighty Catherine the Great, who rose from seemingly innocuous beginnings to become one of the most powerful people...

By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britains expanding empire. B...

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition bringing together the best Rembrandt paintings from American collections. The great seventeenth-cen...

In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of Americas revoluti...

Probably no artist was more prolific among 18th-century topographers than Grimm in recording the landscapes and historic buildings of Great Britain...

The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (17331810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the co...

Over the past thirty years, our ideas about the cultures of Empire have been transformed. Contemporary reflections on Empire by writers and artists...

This is the first illustrated scholarly work devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter. Sir Hen...

This engaging study reveals how a half-hidden thread of Masonic symbolism runs through Hogarth's work. The classical and Biblical references, whose...

Empire to Nation offers a new consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the vis...

This lavishly illustrated book records the high profile restoration of Rembrandt van Rijns 17th century masterpiece, The Night Watch, one of the wo...

Works of art in enamel are among the most attractive, colourful and revealing objects of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Enamel was employed to em...

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in...

Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolour, drawing and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. He had a ...

In The Patron's Payoff, Jonathan Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser apply the innovative methods of information economics to the study of art. Their fin...