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

Disillusioned with London life and struggling to make a living, Blake and his wife Catherine went in 1800 to live at the coastal village of Felpham...

This beautifully illustrated, expansive overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creative achievements of one of t...

Frans Hals is often called 'the master of the laugh'. More than any other painter in the Golden Age he was able to bring a vitality to his portrait...

In 1621, Peter Paul Rubens (15771640) wrote a letter to William Trumbull, the English diplomat and political agent to King James I, in which he des...

An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art...

A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavem...

The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Nea...

Exploring the myths and realities of the origins of the modern artist in Britain The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodyi...

An investigation into how landscape drawing informed a new Dutch identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Throughout the sixteenth and s...

The first modern history of St Jamess Palace, shedding light on a remarkable building at the heart of the history of the British monarchy that rema...

Both lauded and criticized for his pictorial eclecticism, the Florentine artist Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo, created some of the most visual...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at onc...

A novel exploration of the threads of continuity, rivalry, and self-conscious borrowing that connect the Baroque innovator with his Renaissance par...

Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witn...

Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is...

Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on origina...

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished Americas foundi...

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...

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669) stands as one of the most important painters in Western art, but nowhere else do we encounter his inimitab...

Mary Beale (16331699) was one of the earliest professional women artists in Britain. Her successful career was documented by her husband, Charles, ...

In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) remarked, What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick! There is somet...

Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, persona...

This beautifully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of exceptional seventeenth-century Dutch drawings from the Peck Collection in the Ackla...

This handsome catalogue accompanies an exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of the 60-year reign of King George III. It presents one mezzotint po...

Sir John Vanbrugh is celebrated today as one of England's finest country house architects. His masterpieces include palatial private homes such as ...

Artists and travel have for centuries been intertwined where the desire to explore beyond the confines of ones home has provoked a truly astonishin...

La Celestina, a Spanish literary masterpiece second only in importance to Don Quixote in Spanish literature, has been shaped by the inclusion of im...

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compell...

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the con...

Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned ...

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

The first in-depth study of the Utrecht artist to address questions beyond connoisseurship and attribution, this book makes a significant contribut...

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collec...

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...

Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first accou...

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...

In this beautifully illustrated overview, Renée Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility ...

The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature i...

Antoine-Chrysosthôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most distinguished writer on art and architecture at the end of the enlightenment. Ho...

Conceptualizes graft the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaGrafted ...

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European ...

A groundbreaking publication on the Caribbean-born French Neoclassical painter Guillaume Lethière and his extraordinary, yet largely unexamined car...

These 12 stunning works are taken from the Victoria and Albert Museums Rococo collection. Rococo emerged in France in the 1720s and remained the pr...

This catalogue for an exhibition at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht features paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Younger and his contemporaries th...