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

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...

Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to pr...

The name Johann Joachim Kaendler (17061775) is closely entwined in the 18th century with the golden age of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory. His e...

Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands shared a profound connection. Born in Leiden in 1606, the artist witnessed the birth of the independent Dutc...

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (17601849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a ...

Even during the artist's lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) to be an exceptional artist. In this revelator...

Peter Perez Burdett (17331793) was the first person to practise aquatint engraving in Britain. He was also an ambitious map-maker, publishing a pri...

Even during the artist's lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) to be an exceptional artist. In this revelator...

Woodland Imagery in Northern Art reconnects us with the woodland scenery that abounds in Western painting, from Albrecht Dürers intense studies of ...

This gem of a catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, on one of the great painters of 17th-century Italy, Giovanni...

Brittle Beauty presents a superlative private collection of European porcelain radical, rare and in many cases unique pieces assembled over thirty...

This scholarly publication presents the work of the designer, painter and illustrator Claude Gillot (16731722). The first volume on the artist in E...

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts that will shine a spotlight on Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564 163...

This fascinating book provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of sacred imagery and its use through selected studies related to seventeen...

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum of the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778). It is...

This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book presents for the first time the rediscovered frescoes painted by Andrea Sacchi (15991661) for the...

John Carr of York (1723 1807) was one of the most prolific and significant architects of the eighteenth century, with an output of over 400 design...

Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated ac...

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) was Charles IIs Principal Painter and the outstanding artistic figure of Restoration England. When Lely arrived in Engl...

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen Wandmalereien, Skulpturen, Bilderhandschriften sowie Körperbilder des 16. Jahrhunderts in Mexiko. Julia Klos...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed ar...

This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteent...

A beautiful, lively tour through the portraits of one of the most celebrated painters of 17th century Europe In this sumptuously illustrated volume...

Forces elude perception. Since antiquity, however, perception itself (aisthesis) has been considered a force (dynamis). Thinking about perception m...

Fully illustrated in colour, here is the first introduction in English to one of Koreas outstanding cultural assets the banchado (painting of the ...

Written by Valmiki, a dacoit-turned-sage who lived at the same time as Ram himself, Ramayana follows the path of Ram. From his birth, valorous deed...

In this richly illustrated study of the relationship of art, drama, and fiction in the nineteenth century, Martin Meisel illuminates the collaborat...

Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eight...

The northern Italian artist Giacomo Ceruti (16981767) was born in Milan and active in Brescia and Bergamo. For his distinctive, large-scale paintin...