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

Examining colonial art through the lens of transculturation, the essays in this collection assess painting, sculpture, photography, illustration an...

Dulwich Picture Gallery in London holds one of the most remarkable permanent collections of Dutch and Flemish art in the world. Paintings by some o...

A fascinating exploration of the role of music in the art of Vermeer and many of his contemporaries Johannes Vermeer (16321675) is one of the world...

Every extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish newly updated volume, the long-awaited result of more than 20 years of resear...

The controversial, ground-breaking biography of Caravaggio 'A great read; it grabs, it kicks, it lives ... Feel the force of Caravaggio's cutting ...

This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics...

Although fewer than eighty of Caravaggio's painted works exist, they represent a critical moment in the development of European painting as the Ren...

Examining Bernini's works from 1665 on, from Paris and Rome, this book demonstrates the wealth of material still to be drawn from close visual and ...

It was a century of war (mostly) and peace (occasionally), of extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, gargantuan appetites and desperate famines...

This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán (16521706), a prolific and celeb...

Hans Holbein the Younger's life is discovered through his artworks, his family, his patrons and the people who met him. Born into a family of tal...

He was one of the last great court artists and at the same time a significant trailblazer for modern art: Francisco de Goya. The Fondation Beyeler ...

Switzerland is well-known for its host of remarkable collections of 18th century European porcelain. Exemplary representatives include renowned c...

The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying--from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of ...

An intriguing new look at the historical significance of Rembrandt''s representations of Christ With the creation of the dramatic Supper at Emmaus ...

This is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and moder...

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo style was distinguished by a remarkable facility, exuberanc...

The Academie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibit...

The Wallace Collection has one of the most important collections of French eighteenth-century gilt bronze in the world. The Wallace Collection has...

A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonards paintings known as the figures de fantaisie, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagi...

Books on art history are nearly always lavishly illustrated with quality colour reproductions of famous masterpieces. Yet this has not always been ...

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

The Dutch painter Barend Graat lived his entire life in Amsterdam and worked as an artist from 1645 until 1709. He produced drawings and paintings,...

Canaletto's time in Mid-Georgian Britain has received much scholarly attention in the past. But this book places his work in a broader political an...

One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition fr...

Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materia...

A beautiful volume that brings to light the forgotten Le Nain brothers, a trio of 17th-century French master painters who specialized in portraitur...

Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence surveys the diverse styles, subjects, and iconography of painting in Latin ...

The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (17331810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the co...

Over the past thirty years, our ideas about the cultures of Empire have been transformed. Contemporary reflections on Empire by writers and artists...

One of Britains most important and influential painters, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723size=1 color=black>1792) is justly celebrated for his dynamic ...

The life of the poor rural worker appears to have been one of unmitigated toil within an unequal society, a reality seldom endorsed in paintings of...

John Constable is best known for his idyllic paintings of the English countryside. Yet he was also a brilliant innovator who brought a new vivacity...

An illustrated exploration of the artist, Rembrandt van Rijn, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his finest works. This is a fascinatin...

The Rawlinson collection of seal matrices in the University of Oxford is the most important early collection of European seal matrices to survive. ...

One hundred masterpieces of European art and arts and crafts of the eighteenth century form a panorama of innovation, design and expert realisation...

Empire to Nation offers a new consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the vis...

Few British artists have ever achieved such a wide range of style in oil painting, watercolour, drawing and engraving as J. M. W. Turner. He had a ...