Human figures Depicted in Art

This book explores various techniques, sources of inspiration, and creative processes that bring to life the unique visual expressions of portrait ...

Our lives are a complex web of relationships with those we most associate with by their face. For some this includes a face of God, imagined or as ...

The human hand, flexible, mobile and sensitive, is a fascinating and unique part of nature. Its shape and its practical as well as social function ...

Explore 500 years of the British royal family and how their portrayal has developed throughout the ages through beautiful artworks from the Nationa...

The social problem of infant abandonment captured the publics imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation an...

Intersecting art, science and the scenographic mise-en-scène, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing, viewed through the contempor...

The faces on a wall in this book are Northamptonshires captains since 1878, whose portraits appear together in the pavilion at Wantage Road. An ast...

Since studying with Anthony Gormley and Timm Ulrichs, Josef Rainer (*1970) has created an artistic world theatre made up of incidental and overlook...

What were the real life stories and legacies of the six women who married Henry VIII? Discover these extraordinary queens through the court cultur...

Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution's Aftermath explores the intricate networks of belly dance in Cairo, Egypt following the turb...

Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution's Aftermath explores the intricate networks of belly dance in Cairo, Egypt following the turb...

Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto...