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

The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the e...

Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early mo...

In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the B...

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

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

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long bee...

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

The striving for a royal crown, the ennobling of a clever financial policy, or the immortalizing of glorious victoriesall of this is reflected in t...

The popularity of the comic performers of late-Georgian and Regency England and their frequent depiction in portraits, caricatures and prints is be...

Meditations on the paradoxes generated around the ending of western slavery. In his tour-de-force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood read the visual archive...

A fuller, richer picture of an artist at the height of his powers Thomas Gainsboroughs (172788) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle ...

The turn of the eighteenth century was a period of transition in France, a time when new but contested concepts of modernity emerged in virtually e...

Bronze has long been used by sculptors to create complex and beautiful forms, three-dimensional realizations of the most vivid human emotions and e...

This book explores the visual and literary culture of transforming perceptions of children and childhood in France during the nineteenth century. C...

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, schol...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...

Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals,...

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, ...

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartrams journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, author ...