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

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 ...

The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce, scienceand...

Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms...

Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius ...

The romantic and enigmatic character of this picture has inspired many theories about its subject, meaning, history, and even its attribution to Re...

A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.Roberta Smiths Top Art Books of 2019, The New York Times T...

The most complete publication to date on the complex story of the Caravaggesque style. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is probably th...

Starting with Brunelleschis invention of perspective and Galileos invention of the telescopetwo inaugural moments in the history of vision, from tw...

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This ...

This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late M...

Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the se...

This beautifully illustrated volume presents the complex ways in which the lives of artists, clients, and sitters were interconnected in the early ...

John Constable is one of the greatest painters of the English weather. His depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape pai...

An art-oriented biography of the mighty Catherine the Great, who rose from seemingly innocuous beginnings to become one of the most powerful people...

By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britains expanding empire. B...

Made in the Americas reveals the largely overlooked history of the profound influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in th...

Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the ...

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

This volume is the fifth volume of A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, a project devoted to all Rembrandts paintings. This is the work of The Rembrand...

Published on the occasion of a major exhibition bringing together the best Rembrandt paintings from American collections. The great seventeenth-cen...

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings, and prints by Rembra...

In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of Americas revoluti...

Probably no artist was more prolific among 18th-century topographers than Grimm in recording the landscapes and historic buildings of Great Britain...

Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spani...

This is the first illustrated scholarly work devoted to the reception and reputation of Edinburgh's premier Enlightenment portrait painter. Sir Hen...

This engaging study reveals how a half-hidden thread of Masonic symbolism runs through Hogarth's work. The classical and Biblical references, whose...