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

This lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching mercantile effe...

Andreas Schluuter (1659-1714) was the most important Baroque sculptor and architect in Northern Europe. Around 1700, he transformed Berlin into a m...

Dresden's Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe) enjoys world renown as the largest collection of treasures in Europe and one of its richest. Although the pr...

Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio is one of the most revolutionary and celebrated artists of all time. His explosive manner exceeded the acad...

The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplic...

Die Publikation widmet sich den Beziehungen zwischen Restaurierung und Politik in der Kunst der italienischen Renaissance. Die Frage nach der Herku...

The art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is synonymous with the female nude, with the term Rubenesque first coined in the 19th century to describe...

Exploring the significant influences of Turkish dress on French fashion While French fashion has historically set the bar across the Western world,...

In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings of the physician and art critic Giulio Manc...

The largest maps in the world are to be found in the floor of the Citizens' Hall, in the heart of the Royal Palace Amsterdam. The three circular mo...

The invention of the printing press led to an explosion of cheap printed materials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ballads were no long...

This lavishly illustrated book records the high profile restoration of Rembrandt van Rijns 17th century masterpiece, The Night Watch, one of the wo...