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

A visual and social exploration of early modern Beijing's cultural milieuIn 1771 the artist Luo Ping (173399) left his native Yangzhou to relocate ...

This richly illustrated book presents a study of Georgian easel painting (2nd half of the 19th century -- 1st quarter of the 20th century) in conne...

Rembrandt van Rjin (16061669) was among the few celebrated old masters who enjoyed considerable freedom in his choice of subject matter. Living and...

Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and m...

Italian Baroque painting is often discussed in terms of theatre and the creation of powerful visual spectacle through the dramatic use of light. Se...

Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait ne...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Weste...

This is an accessibly written, illustrated biography of Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), one of the most famous women artists in 18th...

Elisabetta Sirani of Bologna (1638-1665) was one of the most innovative and prolific artists of the Bolognese School. Not only a painter, she was a...

In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese ...

This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores...

Celebrated for his penetrating portraits, richly detailed landscapes and evocative narrative paintings, the seventeenth century artist Rembrandt is...

Bringing together more than 100 items of clothing, this book reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Includ...

Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn remains one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen. His mastery of the brush still continues to influence s...

'Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman' focuses specifically on the artist's portraits of well-known society women. Starting with the Cincinnati...

Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Bruniass intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour so called...

One of the most visible, popular, and significant artists of his generation, William Hogarth (16971764) is best known for his acerbic, strongly mor...

Rembrandts Light brings together 35 carefully selected paintings that focus on Rembrandts mastery of light and visual storytelling, concentrating o...