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

How do you portray sin, evil and foolishness in humans? Religious and political tensions and even the weather - we are talking about the depths of ...

Michelangelo's masterpiece The Dream ( Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of all Italian Renaissance drawings and is amongst The Cou...

The dramatic events of the troubled life of Caravaggio, one of the most formidable painters in the history of art of all time, are retraced in this...

Louis XIV - the Sun King - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of...

As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and th...

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metal...

Printed images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circula...

In The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art, Katherine T. Brown explores the lore of the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the ...

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and perman...

This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the buildings Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed id...

Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...

In the past decade, there has been a surge of Anglophone scholarship regarding Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which has led to a...

This rich collection of over twenty fully illustrated essays covers an array of medieval topics, with a particular emphasis on sculpture. The contr...

Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, that the human figure relega...

This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasaris painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 155152 for the Bishop of Arezzo, Vasaris h...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts - only the second exhibition ever devoted to the artist - this noteworthy publicati...

This absorbing book explores the crown jewel of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's collection of rare books and manuscripts: Jean Bourdichon's B...

This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasaris painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 155152 for the Bishop of Arezzo, Vasaris h...

In this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400-1570). She e...