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

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in...

In The Patron's Payoff, Jonathan Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser apply the innovative methods of information economics to the study of art. Their fin...

Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Piet, and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throu...

The Griffoni Polyptych is regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Published for the exceptional reunification ...

Bringing the existence and significance of the lost riches of Henry VIII back to life, this book sheds new light on Henrician and Tudor court cultu...

Its snowing! The exhibition The Miracle in the Snow Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Oskar Reinhart Collection Am Römerholz focuses on the first pai...

Opening Doors is the first book of its kind: a comprehensive study of the emergence and evolution of the Netherlandish triptych from the early fift...

A profound, witty, and informative account of the lives of the saints depicted in the devotional art of the Renaissance This book offers a powerful...

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci''s death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master''s milest...

One of the most influential scholars of the Renaissance, Pietro Bembo (14701547) gained fame not only for his literary theory and poetry, but for h...

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze-magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality...

Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified b...

This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...

The first of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. ...

Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compend...

Under the rule of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509) England became a powerful nation. The Tudor court sought to express its worldliness and political clout ...