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

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...