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

Poussins Women: Sex and Gender in the Artists Works examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicola...

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

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

Early American painter Gilbert Stuart has long been mistakenly represented as a hard-drinking rogue, habitual liar, and inexplicable financial fail...

Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History is a significant contribution to the fields of theory, Darwin studies, and cultural history....

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

Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoratio...

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of...

Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & ConferenceIn 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the...

While the connected, international character of todays art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production an...

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

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans o...

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rub...

This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists whose work involves Rembrandt van R...

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

During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of mixed media recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: enclosed...

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...

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...

Der gebürtige Mailänder Camillo Rusconi (16581728) gilt als der bedeutendste römische Bildhauer des Spätbarock. In dieser Studie widmet sich Frank ...

Zar Peter der Große legte 1714 nahe St. Petersburg den Grundstein zu Schloss Peterhof, dem russischen Versailles, das zwei Jahrhunderte lang als S...

Der heutige Museumsbesucher orientiert sich an eingeübten Verhaltensmustern, die eine eigene Geschichte haben. In dieser Studie wird am Beispiel de...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at onc...