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

Collected for the first time in a new translation: two of the most important and far-reaching biographies of an artist ever written, and our princi...

This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century''s m...

Angelika Kauffmann (17411807) is regarded as the first woman artist of European standing. Well educated and very well connected, she enjoyed an int...

Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (16481721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings, both in wood and stone. Tant...

In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for t...

This absorbing introduction to the story of Rembrandt's rampant fame and influence in Britain is filled with beautiful images. The story of 'Rembr...

The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in the work of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), is given dramatic tension in thi...

This third volume in the Frick Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and taste in the...

Erudite, while still being fun to read.  Professor Tim Neild, physiologist and medical educator A triumph of Social History in the Georgian period....

Charles Le Brun's drawing manual on human emotions has been used for centuries by artists and students as a model for depicting facial expressions....

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining...

In a long career that spanned the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) c...

The first complete monograph of the extraordinarily inventive work of Luigi Valadier, arguably the greatest silver- and goldsmith in eighteenth-cen...

The Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfga...

The full-size plaster models that represented the passage from a preliminary designing phase to the production of the marble sculpture were of gr...

Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628-1688) is the most highly regarded master of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with his contemporaries, the great se...

A woman ahead of her time, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid explorer, naturalist and scholar, as well as a magnificent artist. This...

Celebrates one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age with luxurious, large-format images Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) is one of the most b...

In this new monograph, the latest in Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Wayne Franits examines the work of Vermeer within the framework of his times, ...

First published in 1953, Artemisia is a classic of 20th century Italian literature. From its first publication in 1953, Artemisia, a novel about Ar...

Featuring major works from Caravaggio and his circle and the Italian Baroque period, this lavishly illustrated book looks at Rome as the center of ...

The Haukohl Family stands in the wake of a lasting tradition of European and American collecting practices for the benefit of future generations. P...

This book reveals the extraordinary artistic relationship between Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768) and Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722-Warsaw 1780). Th...

The DeMell Jacobsen Collection of paintings and sculpture-an assemblage rich in American cultural heritage-parallels the development of art in the ...

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one ...

Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new book: The often intimate, reflective and personal side to Rembrandts work in treatin...

The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (17461828) coinci...

A seventeenth century Spanish painter who continues to influence artists today, Velazquez is primarily known for his portraits of Spanish royalty a...

By the early 17th century the Scientific Revolution was well under way. Philosophers and scientists were throwing off the yoke of ancient authority...

This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific regi...

This wide-ranging collection of scholarly essays explores the hybrid cultures, intellectual clashes, and dynamic exchanges of the transpacific regi...

Bernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights and including discussions of the artists ...

French painting of Louis XVs reign (171574), generally categorized by the term rococo, has typically been understood as an artistic style aimed at ...

Richard L. Feigen has amassed a collection of Italian paintings that is widely admired for its depth and quality, especially for the works it featu...

The print repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries in England has been neglected historically, and this remarkable book rectifies a major oversigh...

This beautiful and rare textile, now in the British Museum, was produced in the late seventeenth century in the wake of the remarkable outflow of K...

The art of Franz and Ferdinand Bauer was praised by the poet and botanist Johann Goethe as the perfect expression of the aims of botanical illustra...

Vermeer and the Art of Love is about the emotions evoked in those elegant interiors in which a young woman may be writing a letter to her absent be...

Between 1740 and 1780, Empress Maria Theresa governed the Habsburg Empire, a multilingual conglomeration of states centered on Austria. Although re...

The renowned Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) established his career in Catholic Rome, making paintings that placed par...