History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

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...

Mariano Fortuny was a visionary designer and artist best known today for his rich, innovative textiles and opulent dress designs, he was also an a...

Told with exceptional scholarship, wit and humanity; the book itself is a ravishingly beautiful object - World of Interiors   Geraghty excels in ...

Renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt is well known for his golden masterpieces full of sumptuous ornamentation, as well as his incredible portrait...

Renowned Austrian artist Gustav is well known for his richly decorative commissioned artwork and murals, but he also produced a number of beautiful...

Vincent van Gogh is famous throughout the world for his stunning artworks. His extensive portfolio exceeds some 2,000 pieces of art, of which 800 w...

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous and influential artists in modern history. His extensive portfolio exceeds some 2,000 artworks, of which...

Edgar Degas, born in 1834, was regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. Renowned for his paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings, it is...

Produced in partnership with The Courtauld gallery, this calendar showcases a selection of the many radical and moody views of the Thames painted b...

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In...

This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvelously the Pre- Raphaelites' focus on the natural world intersected with the Victo...

Produced in partnership with The National Gallery, this exquisite mini wall calendar will take you on a journey through the most significant artwor...

An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (17171797) was a collector...

New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-Europ...

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British womens writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that w...

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British womens writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that w...

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

Arguably the most important movement in the history of modern art, Impressionism changed the way audiences perceived painting. This elegant and p...

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 ...