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...