History of Art & Design Styles: c 1600 to c 1800

In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese ...

This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores...

Celebrated for his penetrating portraits, richly detailed landscapes and evocative narrative paintings, the seventeenth century artist Rembrandt is...

Bringing together more than 100 items of clothing, this book reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Includ...

Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn remains one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen. His mastery of the brush still continues to influence s...

'Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman' focuses specifically on the artist's portraits of well-known society women. Starting with the Cincinnati...

Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Bruniass intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour so called...

One of the most visible, popular, and significant artists of his generation, William Hogarth (16971764) is best known for his acerbic, strongly mor...

Rembrandts Light brings together 35 carefully selected paintings that focus on Rembrandts mastery of light and visual storytelling, concentrating o...

Manet called him the greatest painter of all. Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis B...

Marriage a la Mode is the most famous of William Hogarth's 'progresses' or series paintings, the story of a marriage de convenance and its unhappy ...

Accompanying the first major exhibition of Thomas Rowlandson's work in North America for some 20 years, this volume reflects the growing emphasis o...

A discussion of sensibility, sensation, perception and painting, Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art is an original work which argues that the e...

A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected in this moving account of overlooked artistic genius Adam...

The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic comp...

The seventeenth century was one of the most spectacular periods in Dutch history. This so-called Golden Age-- which lasted only five decades-- prod...

Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijns radical contributions to the art of the self-portrait. Challenging the conventi...

PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EXHIBITION AT THE RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR STUDY ON VERMEER'S LIFE AND WORK FO...

The hustle and bustle of London, its changing landscape and infinite sights have provided a rich subject for the many artists who have visited and ...

The life and work of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, (1571-1610) is more fascinating than that of almost any other artist of his time. He...

Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life paintersJan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heemthis book examines the emer...

Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized...

Forget the rural idylls. This sublime show recasts John Constable as the godfather of the Avant Garde, producing explosive, nightmarish paintings ...

The first comprehensive study of William Ince and John Mayhews famous eighteenth-century cabinetmaking partnership, complemented by high-quality ph...

Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of peoples and places around the...

Jennifer Montagu is a world-renowned art historian whose name has become synonymous with the study of Italian Baroque sculpture. In honor of Jennif...

In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovati...

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabil...

Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making an...

Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life and work in relation to thr...

The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne This book provides t...

This richly illustrated book focuses on the extraordinary international networks resulting from the diaspora of more than 200,000 refugees who left...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a remarkable knowledge ...

Chinoiserie, a decorative style inspired by the art of the Far East, gripped Britain from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Des...

An expert look at the life and captivating work of the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, Rembrandts most famous pupil This book offers a close look at t...