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

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (18411919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring pu...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Po...

Paul Gauguin (18481903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen...

Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of G.F. Watts, this book provides a lively and engaging introduction to one of the most c...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (18411919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring pu...

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting ...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

Vincent van Goghs story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of a...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Po...

The work of the artist couple Christo (19352020) and Jeanne-Claude (19352009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, archit...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Po...

The work of the artist couple Christo (19352020) and Jeanne-Claude (19352009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, archit...

Paul Gauguin (18481903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

The work of the artist couple Christo (19352020) and Jeanne-Claude (19352009) resists categorization. It is a hybrid of art, urban planning, archit...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

Paul Gauguin (18481903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impress...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

Vincent van Goghs story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of a...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Po...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

Maria Spilsbury Taylor (1776-1820) lived and worked in London and Ireland and was patronized by the Prince Regent. A painter of portraits, genre sc...

Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America from 1750 to 1900, The Materials ...

Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three rel...

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French...

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature w...

During the Scottish Enlightenment the relationship between aesthetics and ethics became deeply ingrained: beauty was the sensible manifestation of ...

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a paintings subsequent versions created by the same ...

The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution traces four sites of spectatorship that exemplified the visual culture of violence in th...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and ar...

With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (18601939) defined the look of the fin-de-sièc...

With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (18601939) defined the look of the fin-de-sièc...

Henry Fuseli (17411825) was one of the eighteenth centurys most provocative and inventive artists. He is best known for his painting The Nightmare,...

While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (18401917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From ...

Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (12651321), is widely consi...

Munich was one of the earliest and most important centres of Art Nouveau in Germany. After the founding of the first Secession here (1892), the ma...

Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (12651321), is widely consi...