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

Die Draperie der Cappella Albertoni (1674/75) wird von der Autorin erstmals als Vorhang - Leitmotiv in Berninis bildhauerischem uvre und vor dem H...

Early American painter Gilbert Stuart has long been mistakenly represented as a hard-drinking rogue, habitual liar, and inexplicable financial fail...

Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History is a significant contribution to the fields of theory, Darwin studies, and cultural history....

Ab 1789 brachen auch Künstler im Zuge der Emigration zahlreicher Menschen aus Frankreich auf. Die meisten trieb der Niedergang des Kunstmarkts auße...

Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoratio...

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of...

Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & ConferenceIn 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the...

While the connected, international character of todays art economy is well known, the 18th century too had global systems of artistic production an...

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese...

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans o...

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rub...

This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists whose work involves Rembrandt van R...

In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and pr...

During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of mixed media recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: enclosed...

Histories you can trust. The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And wh...

Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722-1789) was an important figure for Kassel. His decades of activity as court painter to the landgraves of H...

Der gebürtige Mailänder Camillo Rusconi (16581728) gilt als der bedeutendste römische Bildhauer des Spätbarock. In dieser Studie widmet sich Frank ...

Zar Peter der Große legte 1714 nahe St. Petersburg den Grundstein zu Schloss Peterhof, dem russischen Versailles, das zwei Jahrhunderte lang als S...

Der heutige Museumsbesucher orientiert sich an eingeübten Verhaltensmustern, die eine eigene Geschichte haben. In dieser Studie wird am Beispiel de...

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...

The Baroque was the first truly global culture. The Ibero-American Baroque illuminates its dissemination, dynamism, and transformation during the e...

Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early mo...

In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the B...

Die Sammlungsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit ist von einer zunehmenden Differenzierung der Sammlungsinteressen, von einer Internationalisierung des ...

As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global...

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long bee...

Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabil...

The striving for a royal crown, the ennobling of a clever financial policy, or the immortalizing of glorious victoriesall of this is reflected in t...

The popularity of the comic performers of late-Georgian and Regency England and their frequent depiction in portraits, caricatures and prints is be...

Meditations on the paradoxes generated around the ending of western slavery. In his tour-de-force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood read the visual archive...

A fuller, richer picture of an artist at the height of his powers Thomas Gainsboroughs (172788) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle ...

The turn of the eighteenth century was a period of transition in France, a time when new but contested concepts of modernity emerged in virtually e...

Bronze has long been used by sculptors to create complex and beautiful forms, three-dimensional realizations of the most vivid human emotions and e...

This book explores the visual and literary culture of transforming perceptions of children and childhood in France during the nineteenth century. C...

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, schol...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...

Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals,...

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, ...

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartrams journey through what would become the southeastern United States William Bartram, author ...

Luca Giordano (Naples, 16341705) was one of Italys most celebrated Baroque painters when he travelled to Florence, where his art was already apprec...