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

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist,...

Die vorliegende Publikation schließt ein Forschungsprojekt ab, in dem erstmalig sämtliche illustrierten, astronomischen und astrologischen Handschr...

Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Durer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised ima...

Der Vesuvausbruch im Jahre 1631 war die heftigste Eruption des Vulkans seit dem Untergang des antiken Pompeji. Naturphilosophen und Literaten aus g...

The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, ...

In der italienischen Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie der Renaissance bezieht sich der Terminus chiaroscuro in erster Linie auf die Artikulation pl...

Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.   The capacious visual archive stud...

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese...

Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world.   The capacious visual archive stud...

Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaìzquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with r...

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array...

In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and pr...

In his own day, Godefridus Schalcken (16431706) was an internationally renowned Dutch painter, but little is known about the four years that he spe...

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Eu...

A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century German...

Histories you can trust. The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And wh...

Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house...

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes...

The book examines how increasing engagement with the rest of the world transformed European art, architecture and design. It considers how commerci...

The comprehensive study of the Italian Renaissance altarpiece from the 13th to the early 17th century The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive...

Die Studie verbindet einen monographischen mit einem systematischen Ansatz: Ausgehend von einer umfassenden Analyse des Werks des Florentiner Künst...

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722-1789) was an important figure for Kassel. His decades of activity as court painter to the landgraves of H...

Trotz Miasmen-Angst und Sittenstrenge war das Bad stets ein fester Bestandteil der frühneuzeitlichen Hofkultur, der bislang nicht umfassend untersu...