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

The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through...

'The most important art historian of his generation’ is how some scholars have described the late Michael Baxandall (1933-2007), Professor of the C...

The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici...

Die Draperie der Cappella Albertoni (1674/75) wird von der Autorin erstmals als Vorhang - Leitmotiv in Berninis bildhauerischem Œuvre – und vor dem...

Ab 1789 brachen auch Künstler im Zuge der Emigration zahlreicher Menschen aus Frankreich auf. Die meisten trieb der Niedergang des Kunstmarkts auße...

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

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist,...

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

Die vorliegende Publikation schließt ein Forschungsprojekt ab, in dem erstmalig sämtliche illustrierten, astronomischen und astrologischen Handschr...

Der Vesuvausbruch im Jahre 1631 war die heftigste Eruption des Vulkans seit dem Untergang des antiken Pompeji. Naturphilosophen und Literaten aus g...

The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, ...

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese...

Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaìzquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with r...

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array...

In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and pr...

In his own day, Godefridus Schalcken (1643—1706) was an internationally renowned Dutch painter, but little is known about the four years that he sp...

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Eu...

A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century German...

Histories you can trust. The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And wh...

Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house...

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes...

Die Studie verbindet einen monographischen mit einem systematischen Ansatz: Ausgehend von einer umfassenden Analyse des Werks des Florentiner Künst...

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722-1789) was an important figure for Kassel. His decades of activity as court painter to the landgraves of H...

Trotz Miasmen-Angst und Sittenstrenge war das Bad stets ein fester Bestandteil der frühneuzeitlichen Hofkultur, der bislang nicht umfassend untersu...

Das Feld der Botanik erscheint prädestiniert für eine Auseinandersetzung sowohl von Seiten der Künste als auch der Naturwissenschaften. In der Früh...

Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, bodily knowledge and s...

Die Sammlungsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit ist von einer zunehmenden Differenzierung der Sammlungsinteressen, von einer Internationalisierung des ...

This volume investigates the artistic development during the Qing Dynasty, the last of imperial Chinese dynasties, and shows the importance of oper...

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

The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera...

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagina...

An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the grea...