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

A groundbreaking collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Finnish National Gallery, this ...

Focusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Con...

An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter Widely considered Britain’s greatest painter, Joseph Ma...

Biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites whose letters give a vivid insight into the dramas of their personal life. ...

A new look at George Caleb Bingham’s iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) moved to Misso...

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art—the radically innovative decade of the ...

Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story....

This book uses the busts on the Chantrey Wall in the Ashmolean Museum to give an introduction to the remarkable career of Francis Chantrey (1781-18...

A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his art Winslow Homer (1836–1910) is widely regarded as ...

A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonard’s paintings known as the ’figures de fantaisie’, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Im...

A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist The work of po...

Arguing in favour of renewed critical attention to the 'nation' as a category in art history, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, n...