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

Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) was a painter, architect, inventor and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many discipline...

A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of mens clothing ever created: the codpiece.The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to...

This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of th...

This book presents the Gianfranco Luzzetti collection housed in the historic complex of the former convent of the Clarisse in Grosseto, a new mus...

The great tradition of printmaking and drawing in Spain has rarely been examined. This spectacular volume of drawings and prints looks at the histo...

A detailed account of a fascinating journey through the Ottoman Empire from 1588 to 1589 Traveller and explorer, art patron and collector, benefact...

Renaissance Children puts child portrait painting from the 15th and 16th century in the spotlight and tells the historical, pedagogical and artisti...

The last great master of the Renaissance, Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), known as El Greco, ''The Greek'', holds a singular place in the hi...

Since they were created Earls of Derby in 1485, the Stanleys - a great Lancastrian family, whose seat, Knowsley Hall, is near Liverpool - have been...

The self-portrait of Baccio Bandinelli in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, shows the scupltor pointing not to a work of marble or bronz...

Lorenzo de' Medici: The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it from...

Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue s...

The volume, starting from the celebrated and fascinating Portrait of a Lady from the Poldi Pezzoli museum in Milan, one of the greatest masterpiece...

Published to accompany the V&A''s major spring exhibition, Botticelli Reimagined, 5 March to 3 July 2016 The Florentine painter Sandro Bottice...

In a Reformation kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together. The Cult of Gloriana ...

During the Tudor Age the South West was famed for the innovation and endeavor of its people. Devon sea dogs Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins sailed to Wo...

The Darnley jewel, a masterpiece of the goldsmith''s art on display at Edinburgh''s Holyrood Palace, has been deemed a love token, but has also bee...

The Monochrome of the Sala delle Asse is a portion of wall decoration left at the drawing stage and represents the roots of one of the sixteen mulb...

This beautiful and extensively illustrated catalogue presents in-depth case studies of twenty-four rare and remarkable Late Medieval panel painting...

Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elders only three known gris...

Leonardo's enduring fascination with waterfrom its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineeringFormless, mutable, transp...