Renaissance art

From a modern perspective, the secular and religious spheres separated at the close of the late mediaeval period. This study is the first to make c...

Dieses Buch ist die erste monographische Studie zum Goldgrund in der italienischen Tafelmalerei. Anhand der Tafelbilder Fra Angelicos zeigt Saskia ...

At the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful pa...

Notwithstanding the wealth of material published about St Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) in the context of medieval scholarship, and the wealth of vis...

A unique opportunity to see rare and beautiful drawings by some of the biggest names in European art. Chatsworth House in Derbyshire holds one of t...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a...

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits ...

This study provides new interpretations of the little-known but fascinating Palazzo Trinci frescoes, relating them for the first time both to their...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (14751564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His man...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of mod...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in...