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

For the first time, National Museums Scotlands important collection of Renaissance jewellery from Scotland is considered together in this fully ill...

One of the key pictorial developments of Renaissance art was a conceptualisation of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The idea ...

A fascinating look at how Elizabethan England was transformed by its interactions with cultures from around the world Challenging the myth of Eliza...

The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spains preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 14881561) revolutionized the arts of Ren...

Both lauded and criticized for his pictorial eclecticism, the Florentine artist Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo, created some of the most visual...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at onc...

The new paperback edition of Roy Strong's popular introduction to Elizabethan portraiture Written for the general reader, Roy Strongs popular intro...

This is the first study of Renaissance architecture as an immersive, multisensory experience that combines historical analysis with the evidence of...

A novel exploration of the threads of continuity, rivalry, and self-conscious borrowing that connect the Baroque innovator with his Renaissance par...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2019Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South Americas most important artistic cen...

This important addition to our understanding of art historys masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at onc...

Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers circa 1420 to 1620 offers a fresh perspective on the art of Venice and the Veneto. The volume brings together the c...

This illuminating exhibition catalogue interrogates the entanglement of the Islamic world with European visual culture during the medieval period a...

This is the first catalogue of the collection of early modern ceramics in the Courtauld. The pieces in the collection showcase brilliantly the skil...

Artists and travel have for centuries been intertwined where the desire to explore beyond the confines of ones home has provoked a truly astonishin...

Prints changed the history of art, even as that history was first being written. In this study, Sharon Gregory argues that this reality was not los...

Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imp...

La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of im...

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compell...

Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconogr...

The social problem of infant abandonment captured the publics imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation an...