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

First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs in the court of Richard II. Bohemian culture exercised an importan...

The first English translation of Erwin Panofsky's long-lost work on MichelangeloIn 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was ...

This volume is dedicated to Taddeo di Bartolo (c. 1362-1422), painter of Sienese origin who, as the travelling master he was, spent a good part o...

An expert shows how Jesus is revealed in great paintings, in ways more subtle than words. Kiely walks through important scenes of the Gospels, paus...

Pioneering investigation of the popular double tomb effigies in the Middle Ages. 2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarsh...

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European...

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of b...

Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, this incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes th...

Made in gold and enamel and decorated with precious stones, the Holy Thorn Reliquary depicts the salvation of mankind through the sacrifice of Chri...

An accessible survey on a genius artist, published to accompany the 500th anniversary of Bosch's death Hieronymus Bosch (c. 14501516) lived and wor...

The amazing tales of the knight Theuerdank and his companion Ehrenhold constitute the last great epic verse of the late Middle Ages. The courageous...

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to...

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspira...

At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters - dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals - who, by their very presence, alte...

Made in the Americas reveals the largely overlooked history of the profound influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in th...

'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more i...

Treasured Possessions explores the significance of beautiful and engaging objects - chosen, acquired and personalised - to the people who once o...

A remarkable private collection formed over the last thirty years is the focus of this richly illustrated book that introduces the reader to Englis...

Offers an exhaustive account of this unique human, artistic and intellectual adventure through a comprehensive and up-to-date art historical analys...

Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of b...