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

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarchs legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portra...

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarchs legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portra...

Jacopo de Barbaris View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a birds-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an internationa...

Jacopo de Barbaris View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a birds-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an internationa...

The theme of the book is the interpretation of Italian Renaissance art by French artists as of the final decades of the 18th century. In particular...

For the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents the collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century French paintings in...

The Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-c...

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color...

'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries...

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separa...

Text in English & German. Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimen...

Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and g...

Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties wi...

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise tha...

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Tradit...

The first monograph to examine Lavinia Fontanas work in over two decades, and the first to focus on her striking portraits  Lavinia Fontana: Trailb...

Elena Ene D-Vasilescu is a Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Studies. She teaches and researches in the fields of Byzantine culture (Philosophy, ...

Das Buch begleitet durch die im Ostflügel des Dresdener Residenzschlosses eingerichtete Dauerausstellung, die mit fürstlichen Prunkwaffen, Herrsche...

The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so in the work of their Italian...

A leading art historians plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance artOnly Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and s...

Die im Nordflügel des Dresdner Residenzschlosses eingerichtete Dauerausstellung stellt die aus dem Besitz der sächsischen Kurfürsten und Kurfürstin...

Die Entstehung der Ekphrasis als ästhetische Kategorie der Renaissance steht unter dem Einfluss der antiken Schulrhetorik und der literarischen Tra...

Brushwork and poetry the great awakening of Venetian painting around 1500. In the Venice of the Renaissance, master artists like Bellini, Giorg...