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

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...