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

A vibrant urban settlement from medieval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during ...

During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifes...

represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from wo...

"A funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene" Independent"Highly enjoyable read" SpectatorAnth...

An introduction to the raucous yet educational ‘gap year’ tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteen...

Magritte, Bacon, Ensor, Moore, Jordaens, Rubens … These were just some of the world-famous names on display at the MAS. The not-to-be-missed exhibi...

Arguably the greatest artist of the Baroque period, Peter Paul Rubens was an accomplished painter and draughtsman, as well as a valued diplomat. Th...

The planning history of St. Peter's in Rome at the beginning of the 16th century has been an important topic of art historical research since the ...

Born in southern Germany, Philipp Jakob Straub is one of the most important representatives of 18th century Austrian Baroque sculpture. For the fir...

The palaces built in Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are some of the most magnificent buildings in Europe – yet they remain relati...

In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary mark...

The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ ...

This book focuses on key monuments of the Baroque style, which varies in different European contexts. It is intended to affirm the existence of ind...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original ic...