History of Art & Design Styles: c 1400 to c 1600

This carefully edited collection of Leonardo da Vinci's original notebooks provides a representative selection of his genius and shows how he recor...

This comprehensive new book is an essential volume for anyone who wants to learn more about Leonardo and to survey his greatest works in one beauti...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples thro...

Campbell and Cole, respected teachers and active researchers, draw on traditional and current scholarship to present complex interpretations in thi...

A brand new look at the extraordinary accomplishments of early modern Italian women artists This generously illustrated volume surveys a sweeping r...

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian pa...

Essential to art libraries and art historians who study Leonardo and the Renaissance. The first book to have the photos of the restored masterpiec...

Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he cre...

'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A great, thrusting codpiece of a book. It is big, bombastic and richly brocaded... A jewel in its own right' The T...

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar DegasCovering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide of...

Botticelli is one of the most admired artists of the Renaissance period and his seductive Venus and graceful Primavera are among the world's most r...

'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.'Often called the first art historian, Vasari...

Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or m...

An original and breathtakingly beautiful perspective on how art developed through the ages, this book reveals how new materials and techniques insp...

This is a fascinating re-evaluation of the life and works of a hugely talented yet controversial artist. The young Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggi...

Learn about key movements like impressionism, cubism and symbolism in The Art Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tric...