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

In this sumptuous portrait of the house known as the English Versailles, the Duke of Buccleuch sets the scene with a history of his ancestors, the ...

A fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors, revealing the dynastys influence on the arts in Renaissance England and beyond Ruling ...

An exploration of Dürers career and legacy as an international traveling artist The visual legacy of Dürers travels extends far beyond his lifetime...

This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliards long and remarkable life (c. 15471619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan ...

Unlike the other two master Renaissance painters associated with Venice, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto (151994) alone was born in Venice and he l...

Florence is justly named the 'cradle of the renaissance'. It was here that, inspired by the revival of interest in classical antiquity, fuelled by ...

Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert is a masterpiece of Venetian Renaissance art that portrays St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval saint w...

Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance over the hundreds of...

The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through...

This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of...

Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth-century Florence to hi...

Camillo Palladini's manuscript for his discourse on fencing is housed in the De Walden Library at the Wallace Collection in London. Previously unpu...