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

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits ...

This study provides new interpretations of the little-known but fascinating Palazzo Trinci frescoes, relating them for the first time both to their...

Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 13001800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art.Based in the disciplines of a...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (14751564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His man...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of mod...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in...

Published in 1979: This book is about the History of the work of painter and architect, Raffaello around the Renaissance era.

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and arch...

This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations ...

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examinatio...

Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo a...

This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fameor second lifefr...

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and arch...

Shedding new light on the relatively unknown art of the Wittelsbach dukes's sixteenth-century court, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris represents ...

The social problem of infant abandonment captured the publics imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation an...

This title was first published in 2002: Jörg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included Dürer, Cranach, Grünewa...

Published in 1979: This book is about the History of the work of painter and architect, Raffaello around the Renaissance era.

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned ...

Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of t...

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

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

During the period 1000-1700 major transformations took place in material culture. Quite simply, more objects were manufactured and used than ever b...

During his reign, King Charles I (1600-1649) assembled one of Europe's most extraordinary art collections. Indeed, by the time of his death, it con...

The first volume of the series Raphael and His Time starts with a study of the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione in its cultural contexts confront...

This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased ...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

The spiritual turmoil of the sixteenth century had a profound impact on religious life throughout Italy. Art and architecture were directly implica...

Brimming with stunning reproductions and illuminating texts, this handy and accessible book is the perfect introduction to the famous Renaissance a...

Discovered in 1995, the remarkable thirteenth-century frescoes in the great hall, or Aula Gotica, of Rome's Santi Quattro Coronati complex are amon...

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the worlds mo...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...

Die Dresdner Kunstkammer im Residenzschloss bietet eine faszinierende Vielfalt von Sammlungsobjekten der Spätrenaissance und des Frühbarock. Dem Gr...

Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel ...

Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El ...

At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful pa...

Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style Allantica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of pri...