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

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...

Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. M...

This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titians Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso dAvalos, dated to 1530/5. In ...

Santa Maria di Firenze, an ancient, venerable Benedictine abbey (called the Badia) located in the heart of Florence, is the subject of Anne Leader'...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

This book presents four case studies that interrogate how German fifteenth-century painted triptychs engage with, and ultimately blur, various boun...

Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with water. The famed Italian Renaissance artist meticulously drew every aspect of rivers, from the nature of water ...

T.J. Clark offers profound insights on Bruegels art, where we encounter a reality formed from wholly worldly materials, yet suspended between belie...

The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/301569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Al...

As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global...

Although Boschs known works amount to no more than two dozen paintings and a handful of drawings, the artist had an enormous impact on religious im...

Sydney J. Freedberg presents an interpretive analysis and a full Catalogue Raisonn?? of Andrea del Sarto''s achievement. The interpretive work incl...

Focusing on the prolific trade, transport and consumption of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese lacquer abroad between 1500 and 1644, this gr...

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

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

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

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

Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the art of fresco painting was to be found across all regions of Italy. This volume aims to il...

Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, the art of fresco painting was to be found across all regions of Italy. This volume aims to il...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (15771640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality...

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

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

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

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