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

The 177 essays in these two richly illustrated volumes represent the cutting edge of Italian Renaissance scholarship in nearly every one of its fie...

The most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence -- with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great mu...

Giambologna (1529 1606) is regarded as the most important European sculptor between Michelangelo and Bernini. How did he achieve this status? This...

Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and...

Around 1500, Lucas Cranach the Elder steps onto the world stage in Vienna. The publication explores this, the artists earliest period of work and ...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a remarkable knowledge ...

An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its de...

A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 14351488) was one of the most ve...

The first major history of the bravura movement in European paintingThe painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and sp...

According to Nico Muhly, the Coronation of the Virgin is a panel of pure theatre and music. Painted in 1358 by the Venetian artist Paolo Veneziano ...

An authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian Renaissance Meticulously r...