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

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

**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historian...

Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole ...

Sofonisba Anguissola (c.15321625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of the first women artists of Europe t...

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteen...

In 1752 Charles-Joseph Natoire, then a highly successful painter, assumed the directorship of the prestigious Académie de France in Rome. Twenty-th...

The profession of sculpture was transformed during the eighteenth century as the creation and appreciation of art became increasingly associated wi...

Although discredited by seventeenth-century scientists, temperament theory which attributed human moods to the interaction of four distinct bodily...

The study analyzes differentiated concepts of truth in Dutch prints of the 16th and 17th centuries. Against the backdrop of religious and politica...

The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious womens communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and ima...

In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; pract...

Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703-1768) were highly visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal châteaux and, after 1737, in ...

Bringing into relief the singularity of Barry's unswerving commitment to his vision for history painting despite adverse cultural, political and co...

Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a late 17th- and early 18th-ce...

In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimate...

The 18th century was the age of the connoisseur. It was also an era of an expanding global consciousness born of accelerating trade and imperial co...

For the first time in English, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents the collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century French paintings in...

Manhattan Masters shows the most beautiful Dutch Masters from the Golden Age in The Frick Collection, New York. The book elaborates the creation of...

This book sheds new light on Delft pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries. During this period, the Delft pottery industry took off, under the str...

The most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (17201778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chi...

In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among Chinas educated elites began to use touch...

Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; th...

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James And...

Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near ...

In 1823, the fourth-century basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome was destroyed by a catastrophic fire, prompting debate as to whether, ...

In the mid- to late seventeenth century, a number of Dutch painters created a new type of refined genre painting that was much admired by elite col...

Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only a...

This volume brings together over 25 scholarly essays, reviews and shorter contributions by Peter Hecht, preceded by an introduction on what he thin...

Bringing to life the world of Spanish royal tailor Mateo Aguado and his colleagues during the reign of Philip IV, and exploring the distinctive loo...

Die Entstehung der Ekphrasis als ästhetische Kategorie der Renaissance steht unter dem Einfluss der antiken Schulrhetorik und der literarischen Tra...

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James And...

This book considers what prints tell us about the development of the landscape garden in 18th- and early 19th- century Britain. They formed a sign...

Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the e...

Das Buch begleitet durch die im Ostflügel des Dresdener Residenzschlosses eingerichtete Dauerausstellung, die mit fürstlichen Prunkwaffen, Herrsche...

The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so in the work of their Italian...

The contributions to this volume shed light on the emergence of important collections of drawings in Vienna and Central Europe, many of which form ...

Wie definierte sich im päpstlichen Rom der Spielraum, in dem Frauen wie Artemisia Gentileschi oder Giovanna Garzoni künstlerisch agieren konnten? A...

The most important architects of his time entrusted Jean Marot with their designs, and he knew how to give their ethereal ideas lasting tangibility...

This is a fascinating exploration of the mystery that surrounds of Ruben's most well-known and intriguing drawings. Peter Paul Rubens was one of th...

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes ...

The first genuinely interdisciplinary study of creativity in early modern England In the seventeenth century, the concept of creativity was far re...

Über die berühmten Stichfolgen des im Jahre 1700 in Augsburg geborenen und 1761 in Wien verstorbenen Vedutenzeichners und Kupferstechers Salomon Kl...