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

Leonardo's enduring fascination with waterfrom its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineeringFormless, mutable, transp...

Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as div...

A Renaissance painter and printmaker best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes, Bruegel's paintings were often unsentimental depictions of d...

The Ashmolean Museum and the Albertina are collaborating on a two-part exhibition project that will examine anew the role and the significance of d...

Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) was as important for his age as Rembrandt was for the 17th century. He introduced the Renaissance to the Netherlands a...

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance Through most of Michelangelos working li...

The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the RenaissanceSofonisba Anguissola (ca. 15351625) was the daughter of minor Lombard ar...

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg houses a relatively small but choice collection of 16th- to 19th-century British paintings, among th...

The Virgin Mary rises up like a giant Tower of Babel in a close-up view, separated from us by a slender railing along which runs the painter's sign...

Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings...

In this authoritative study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua a...

Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the development of courts and court culture in much of the Italian territory. The patronage of ...

Painter, poet and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted la...

Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmon...

Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more ...

Shows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. The presentati...

This title provides an intelligent and illuminating exploration of the rivalry that existed between the artists of the Renaissance & Baroque er...

The emblem, a Renaissance literary genre which combined text and image, conveyed erudition, admonishment, propaganda, and piety with unparalleled c...

Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to single international artists...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the world's most original artists who founded a dynasty of painters. His most popular works include Children's G...

Craving pleasure as well as knowledge, Raphael Sanzio was quick to realize that his talent would only be truly appreciated in the liberal, carefree...

This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the multiple thre...

Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's...

Craving pleasure as well as knowledge, Raphael Sanzio was quick to realize that his talent would only be truly appreciated in the liberal, carefree...

The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and hi...

Tintoretto shaped the artistic appearance of his hometown, Venice, like no other Renaissance artist. His works remain foundational for the European...

More than 250 works by Albrecht Durer are reproduced here to give the reader a comprehensive survey of the life and work of this unique and univers...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable rese...

The volume, investigating the extraordinary season of the Italian Renaissance, highlights the great contribution offered to the culture of that per...