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

This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the...

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examinatio...

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the gen...

The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their...

Wallpapers spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the materials use in Britain during the long eighte...

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the ce...

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this ...

The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening...

Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijns radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conventions enshri...

This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the Englis...

A complete history of Bohemian architecture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries fo...

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1684) was one of the best still-life painters of the 17th century. His work, which is enchanting to the eye, has always ...

Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours...

The rediscovery of a Baroque masterpiece by the venerable Italian painter In 2021, a painting was offered at a Madrid auction houses at a starting...

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painte...

Die Dresdner Kunstkammer im Residenzschloss bietet eine faszinierende Vielfalt von Sammlungsobjekten der Spätrenaissance und des Frühbarock. Dem Gr...

Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel ...

Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics...

The historical trajectory of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome, to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar B...

The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of historys greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harme...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed ar...

The Art of Anna Dorothea Therbusch (17211782) is the first English-language monograph on this exceptional German artist that critically examines Th...

Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through ei...

This is an in-depth study of the intellectual, technical, and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century, focusing...

In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and Britis...

Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas Hagger wrote three letters to the eminent literary critic Christopher Ricks about his poetic identity, and Ricks agr...

How a wave of exotic botanical imports from across Britains empire shaped its gardens and psyche   Between 1760 and 1840, exotic plants were import...

A comprehensive, in-depth examination of nearly three centuries of sculptural production from Frances famous Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory  Sèvres E...

As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global...

The Mansion House, the palatial city residence of the Lord Mayor of London, is home to one of the capitals finest collections of British sculpture ...

Inspired by the recent identification of a third autograph version of Gainsboroughs masterpiece The Cottage Door, this book examines the significan...

There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (15771640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

This book accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon that will unite Chardins four paintings of a boy with a house of cards for the first time (loans c...

There are over 1,000 catalogued works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (15771640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality...

Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Foundling Museum in London, this fascinating book will re-introduce Joseph Highmore (16921780), an...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

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...

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...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

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...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...