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

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned ...

Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of t...

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

During the period 1000-1700 major transformations took place in material culture. Quite simply, more objects were manufactured and used than ever b...

During his reign, King Charles I (1600-1649) assembled one of Europe's most extraordinary art collections. Indeed, by the time of his death, it con...

The first volume of the series Raphael and His Time starts with a study of the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione in its cultural contexts confront...

This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased ...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

The spiritual turmoil of the sixteenth century had a profound impact on religious life throughout Italy. Art and architecture were directly implica...

Brimming with stunning reproductions and illuminating texts, this handy and accessible book is the perfect introduction to the famous Renaissance a...

Discovered in 1995, the remarkable thirteenth-century frescoes in the great hall, or Aula Gotica, of Rome's Santi Quattro Coronati complex are amon...

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the worlds mo...

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

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

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

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

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

Die Dresdner Kunstkammer im Residenzschloss bietet eine faszinierende Vielfalt von Sammlungsobjekten der Spätrenaissance und des Frühbarock. Dem Gr...

Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel ...

Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El ...

At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful pa...

Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style Allantica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of pri...

Think of the Renaissance and you might only picture the work of fine artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Van Eyck. Or architecture ...

This book recovers the lives of four men masked behind one legend. Reinterpreting recently rediscovered documents shows a Tuscan artist Leonardo da...

Studies in Iconography is an annual journal hosted by the Index of Medieval Art and published in partnership with Medieval Institute Publications. ...

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbrea...

Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and pr...

The achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo were, even during a period of unprecedented artistry, out of the ordinary...

The Byzantine icon has long remained marginal to the study of art's history, only emerging from Giorgio Vasari's condemnation of the gilded, unnatu...

The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain. This book pioneers in reconstructing the global image discourse ...

Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through ei...

Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presen...

Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to PolandLithuanias roots in the suppos...