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

A landmark publication on the influential Renaissance sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni, who was the pupil of Donatello and the teacher of Michelangelo...

At the turn of the fifteenth century, private devotionals became a speciality of the renowned GhentBruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commiss...

Following the arc of Bellinis career, from his early devotional paintings to his later, occasionally secular works, this book offers an in-depth ap...

Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appeali...

A visually exciting, focused exploration of two of the great masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting. This book celebrates the reunion, for ...

Explores the representation of highly realistic and violent subjects in the paintings, prints and drawings of Jusepe de Ribera (1591 1652). The S...

Bodies in ecstasy, bodies in tortuous pain, bodies devoid of life and bodies rising to the afterlife: the subject of the human is central to the wo...

Summer in Paris. British art student Adam King undertakes an internship at a contemporary art museum. An encounter with an unusual collective of yo...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale-such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus-and...

Celebrates one of the greatest and most beloved painters of the Early Renaissance with luxurious, large-format images Sandro Botticelli, one of the...

In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic and intellectual blossoming in Florence from ca.1400 to...

Albrecht Durer's prints and drawings have inspired hundreds of artists, both during his life and after his death. Yet his talent as a painter and c...

Pieter Brugel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels argues that many of the hybrid falling angels are carefully composed of naturalia and artificial...

The Armada Portrait is perhaps the most immediately recognisable depiction of Elizabeth I and, arguably, of any British monarch. It captures both t...

The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/301569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Al...

The first monograph in a generation, and the first study in English in over eighty years, this book presents a new understanding of the Renaissance...

The frescoes of Peruzzi, Raphael and Sodoma still dazzle visitors to the Villa Farnesina, but they survive in a stripped-down environment bereft of...

A fifteenth-century Flemish painter who spent most of his life in Bruges, van Eyck was revered for his innovative manipulation of oil paint. Overfl...

Pioneering investigation of the popular double tomb effigies in the Middle Ages. 2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarsh...

Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose...

16th-century Europe was a time of unprecedented economic expansion, cross-cultural trade, religious upheaval, warring empires, and scientific advan...

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. This magnificent volume, published to ...

In 1542 Pope Paolo III Farnese, with the approval of Michelangelo, commissioned to Perino del Vaga (15011547) a tapestry basement for the Last Judg...

In Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited, photographer Sarah Quill has selected passages from Ruskin's The Stones of Venice and has linked them to ...

In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript pa...

Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their...

The concept of a Northern European Renaissance in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture north of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cu...