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

Leonardo's greatest work of science beautifully reproduced for the 500th anniversary of his death. This edition offers a high-quality facsimile re...

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

In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical pro...

Raphaels Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphaels paintingthe ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala...

Engagingly written and profusely illustrated, this book offers readers a close-up view from the scaffolding of some of the greatest Renaissance wal...

This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T. S...

This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek langua...

This new edition of Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester is the most comprehensive scholarly edition of any of Leonardo's manuscripts. It contains a...

A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth centurys most eminent art historiansIn this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an...

The invention of the printing press led to an explosion of cheap printed materials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ballads were no long...

Dürer's Lost Masterpiece tracks the history of a turning point in the career of the celebrated German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), when he st...

A gloriously illustrated volume that looks at the remarkable armor of a key Habsburg commander and its relationship to contemporary Renaissance fas...

Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy...

Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual vi...

The Italian Renaissance is conventionally thought of as the historical period that bore witness to the rise of the individual. Yet no other artist ...

This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as the monk. The walking, ...

How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent ageThis pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the inte...

A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material cultureAlthough questions of form and style...