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

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 ...

Luca Giordano (Naples, 16341705) was one of Italys most celebrated Baroque painters when he travelled to Florence, where his art was already apprec...

**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historian...

Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole ...

Sofonisba Anguissola (c.15321625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of the first women artists of Europe t...

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteen...

In 1752 Charles-Joseph Natoire, then a highly successful painter, assumed the directorship of the prestigious Académie de France in Rome. Twenty-th...

The profession of sculpture was transformed during the eighteenth century as the creation and appreciation of art became increasingly associated wi...

Although discredited by seventeenth-century scientists, temperament theory which attributed human moods to the interaction of four distinct bodily...

The study analyzes differentiated concepts of truth in Dutch prints of the 16th and 17th centuries. Against the backdrop of religious and politica...

The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious womens communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and ima...

In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; pract...

Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) were highly visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal châteaux and, after 1737, in ...

Bringing into relief the singularity of Barry's unswerving commitment to his vision for history painting despite adverse cultural, political and co...

Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a late 17th- and early 18th-ce...

In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimate...

The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial co...

For the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents the collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century French paintings in...

Manhattan Masters shows the most beautiful Dutch Masters from the Golden Age in The Frick Collection, New York. The book elaborates the creation of...

This book sheds new light on Delft pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries. During this period, the Delft pottery industry took off, under the str...