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

Fred Kline is a well-known art historian, dealer, connoisseur, and explorer who has made a career of scouring antique stores, estate sales, and auc...

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was...

The quest for the exotic became an obsession for Renaissance princes and collectors, as markets in Lisbon and Seville were flooded by the mid 16th ...

Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture?The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of the Re...

Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequen...

Giorgio Vasaris The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental asse...

Leonardo's fame is bound up in great works whose background is obscure. There is theMona Lisa, for which we do not know the exact year of commencem...

As this exciting contribution to interdisciplinary studies in the arts shows, the art and architecture of the Middle Ages were reworked, reframed a...

Furusiyya in the East meets Chivalry in the West. Discover how these distinct practices of combat and knightly values led to a specific culture in ...

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel...

Volume 1 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist and inventor who has been written about and celebrated for centuries. Lesser known, however, ...

The untold story of Michelangelo's final decadesand his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he entered ...

During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As rel...

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...

An analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develo...

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of Tiziano Vecellio (c. 14881576), commonly known as Titian, and the figurehead of 16th-century Ve...

With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro...

In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (14831...

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

Definitive account of the architectural work of the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo (14751564). This monograph presents 31 of his projects, s...

No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works o...

Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was the greatest artist of the Northern European Renaissance. Dürer's virtuoso woodcuts and engravings ensured his fame t...

We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much more to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the...

This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with p...

A history of the relationship between art and geometry in the early modern period.In The Polyhedrists, Noam Andrews unfolds a history of the relati...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021 ...

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis o...

Through historical coincidence that almost takes on a mythical character, 'Michelangelo' was the given name not only of the Florentine sculptor, bu...

The Wellby Bequest, received by the Ashmolean Museum in 2013, consists of some 500 precious and exotic objects, mainly from Continental Europe, fro...

Raphael arrived in Rome in 1508 and remained there until his death in 1520, working as painter and architect for popes Julius II and Leo X and for ...