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

Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darke...

In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculptu...

Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to ...

Poussins scenes of bacchanalian revelry, tripping maenads and skipping nymphs are often described as dancelike and choreographed. The artists danci...

This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliards long and remarkable life (c. 15471619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan ...

Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Ta...

Celebrated for his dreamlike paintings of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors, Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) also produced a number of captivat...

This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696–1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of...

Explores Rembrandt's unique approach to depicting the nature of divine encounter and the complexities of its representation. Rembrandt took an unu...

No literary figure of the 18th century was more esteemed than the poet Alexander Pope, and his sculpted portraits exemplify the celebration of lite...

Rembrandt is probably the most famous Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. His works are greatly loved today, but he was not always so well re...

Mercurial, saturnine, scandalous and unpredictable, Caravaggio as a man, as a character and as an artist holds dramatic appeal. He spent a larg...

Modern art begins with Goya. He was the first to create works of art for their own sake, and he lived in a time of incredible cultural and social d...