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

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

Das Feld der Botanik erscheint prädestiniert für eine Auseinandersetzung sowohl von Seiten der Künste als auch der Naturwissenschaften. In der Früh...

Erstmals wird hier die Bildnissammlung der österreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Loth...

Der gebürtige Mailänder Camillo Rusconi (16581728) gilt als der bedeutendste römische Bildhauer des Spätbarock. In dieser Studie widmet sich Frank ...

Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a ve...

Zar Peter der Große legte 1714 nahe St. Petersburg den Grundstein zu Schloss Peterhof, dem russischen Versailles, das zwei Jahrhunderte lang als S...

These experimental translations will grab you some will give you goose bumps, some will rub off their lyric pensiveness and cheeky melancholia; so...

Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process ...

Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early mo...

In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the B...

Die Sammlungsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit ist von einer zunehmenden Differenzierung der Sammlungsinteressen, von einer Internationalisierung des ...

Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under de' Medici in...

This volume investigates the artistic development during the Qing Dynasty, the last of imperial Chinese dynasties, and shows the importance of oper...

As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global...

This book provides a new perspective on Sienese painting after the Black Death, asking how social, religious, and cultural change affect visual ima...

In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images...

The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesth...

Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. Th...

Produced in partnership with the National Gallery, this calendar will take you on a journey through the most well-loved masterpieces from the Natio...

In this book, Douglas Biow analyzes Vasari's Lives of the Artists - often considered the first great work of art history in the modern era - from a...

This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the ...

This volume examines the painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced in nine important court cities of Italy during the course ...

The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera...

This book examines the multi-media art patronage of three generations of the Tornabuoni family, who commissioned works from innovative artists, suc...