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

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...

Salvator Rosa was one of the boldest and most powerfully inventive artists and personalities of the Italian 17th century. In Britain he is now best...

The dramatic events of the troubled life of Caravaggio, one of the most formidable painters in the history of art of all time, are retraced in this...

The Leiden-born artist Jan Steen (16261679) is widely admired as one of the most engaging and technically brilliant painters of the Dutch Golden Ag...

A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own w...

Louis XIV - the Sun King - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of...

As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and th...

Printed images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circula...

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and perman...

During the Scottish Enlightenment the relationship between aesthetics and ethics became deeply ingrained: beauty was the sensible manifestation of ...

The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution traces four sites of spectatorship that exemplified the visual culture of violence in th...

When dusting out corners, we often find things once thought useful, but perhaps not useful enough to keep on display or ready to hand. If we dust i...

The garden of the Rubens House is a hidden gem in the heart of Antwerp. This is the place where the world-famous artist lived with his family and e...

A New York Times best art book of 2022An A to Z exploration of the Enlightenments quest for understanding and change, as revealed in the eras print...

This catalogue will be published to accompany the fi rst ever exhibition of Golden Age Dutch pictures in the collection of the National Trust, whic...

For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe. Their elaborate s...

The Dresden collections singular group of Rembrandt works about 20 drawings attributed to the master today and the nearly complete oeuvre of etchi...

George Stubbs: all done from Nature presents the first significant overview of Stubbss work in Britain for more than 30 years and brings together 8...

His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions...

Between 1777 and 1784, the Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) executed six murals for the Great Room of the [Royal] Society of Arts in London. A...

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

The beauty of nature and mans loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small hum...

Innovative exploration of the Brussels Baroque and the social dimensions of art production.In seventeenth-century Brussels, the careers of painters...

Brings to light the evolution of Sikh art from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Breaking fresh ground in the study of Sikh art, after the ...

Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from 1750-1840, this book demonstrates that the mate...

In The Enlightenments Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteent...

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic product...

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...

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...

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...

This book is the first complete study of the life and work of the 17th-century Dutch painter Simon Kick (1603-1652). Kick was active in Amsterdam, ...

Portraits have a long history in royal courts as a way of communicating the monarchs status, rulership, and even piety. This anthology places such ...

The early modern period is defined, in part, by the emergence of the artist as a distinctive kind of human subject. This volume is concerned with i...

Manet called him the greatest painter of all. Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis B...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...

This title comes with a new Introduction by Bethan Griffiths and Peter Milington. We are fortunate today that there is a far greater understanding ...

Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day...