Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte’s death, this edited volume brings together a diverse group of historians, art hi......more

In 1806, the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford opened a gallery at Cleveland House, London, to display their internat......more

How Allan Kaprow’s happenings fused modernist pedagogy with an emerging college culture. In Happening Pedagogy, art hist......more

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from th......more

An insightful rethinking of political socialization within Latino immigrant households. Conventional wisdom tells us tha......more

An insightful rethinking of political socialization within Latino immigrant households. Conventional wisdom tells us tha......more

A study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South and Central America. A......more

A study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South and Central America. A......more

A surprising look at what happens to the actual school buildings in the wake of school closures. School districts across......more

How an ancient Indigenous earthwork traveled from Ohio to Washington state in the mid-1970s. In Transit, Chadwick Allen ......more

How an ancient Indigenous earthwork traveled from Ohio to Washington state in the mid-1970s. In Transit, Chadwick Allen ......more

On the two-hundredth anniversary of Frederic Edwin Church’s birth, leading scholars explore how his wide-ranging work co......more

How did Ottoman individuals and objects interact within the wider nineteenth-century world? The eleven essays from schol......more

Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from Hogarth to Constable. ......more

Die Einführung der in Europa entwickelten Fotografie führte im Iran rasch zur Entstehung einer eigenständigen fotografis......more

A fascinating consideration of the dynamic relationship between fashion, art, and the modernizing forces of the early ni......more

The Regency was a period of crucial importance in the history of collecting Old Master paintings in England. As the owne......more

Since Plato’s Republic, mimesis -- the artwork’s tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constan......more

The fascinating era of the Biedermeier, reflected in works from the countries of the Habsburg Monarchy--from Viennese ma......more

- A richly pictorial introduction to the birthplace of 18th-century artist Thomas Gainsborough, now both a museum and a ......more

This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient s......more

Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory argues that the display of Canova’s sculp......more

Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centu......more

Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centu......more

Based on the original 1863 edition, this presentation of Goya’s 80 etchings decries the consequences of war through his ......more

Rarely seen watercolors by the greatest English artists of the 19th century, beautifully reproduced. Curated and introdu......more

A compelling introduction to the life and work of William Blake, an exuberant and rebellious personality whose radical v......more

The Stereoscopic Picturesque is an interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century 3D photography and its relation to the ......more

European Romanticism in the visual arts has always been defined by transnational transfer processes. It is surprising th......more

This richly illustrated volume invites readers to explore the phenomenon and fascination of Romanticism, a movement that......more

Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music, this ......more

A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on ......more

Francisco de Goya was one of the most innovative peintre-graveurs of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, his etching......more

"Examines the intersection of gender, race, and imperialism in Eugene Delacroix’s representations of Arab men from his f......more

While much has been written about the 19th century as a watershed period of curiosity, discovery, and reform, specific c......more

A New Yorker Best Books of 2025 A Best Book of the Year from The Spectator, New Statesman, and The Times A revelatory an......more

Filled with brilliant reproductions and engaging texts reflecting latest scholarship, this portable and attractively pri......more

"Bringing together a diverse group of historians, art historians, and museum professionals, and spanning two centuries a......more

An engaging account of Britain’s greatest painter, told through works from the Yale Center for British Art’s extensive c......more

In the early 1850s, John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice, a history of Venetian architecture. He asserted the mora......more

A richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotional......more

A necessary contemporary reframing of a classic nineteenth-century artist. Josef Mánes (1820-71) was a creator on whom t......more

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and......more

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One hundred and forty-two art pieces illustrate the golden age of miniature portraits in the Romantic Era. The Romantic ......more

This richly illustrated volume paints a complex portrait of Caillebotte, masculinity, and identity in late nineteenth-ce......more

Dive into the seductive world of art with the the Dark Vintage Collection. Created by gay Canadian artist Astra Zero. Th......more

Liberté! Ary Scheffer and French Romanticism tells the story of Dutch painter Ary Scheffer and his artistic battle for f......more

The Art and Thought of John La Farge: Picturing Authenticity in Gilded Age America offers an unprecedented portrait of o......more

A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on......more

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence, his works icons of an age of majo......more

When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting a......more

"The Rivals" is a five-act comedy play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It premiered on January 17, 1775, at the Co......more

"The Irrational Knot" by George Bernard Shaw is a novel that delves deeply into the complexities of marriage and divorce......more

"The Warden" by Anthony Trollope centers on the life of Septimus Harding, an elderly clergyman who serves as the warden ......more

Westerfelt: A Novel"" is a work by American author Will N. Harben, published in 1901. Will Nathaniel Harben (1858-1919) ......more

"The School for Scandal" is a comedy of manners play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It premiered at Drury Lane Th......more

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"This book examines the art gallery at Cleveland House, known in the 19th century as the ’Louvre of London’ due to its i......more

Dive into the seductive world of art with the the Dark Vintage Collection. Created by gay Canadian artist Astra Zero. Th......more

Since Plato’s Republic, mimesis -- the artwork’s tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life -- has faced a near-constan......more

The book presents an unpublished marble portrait by Domenico Rupolo, a sculptor and architect from Veneto, portraying Ma......more

An examination of landscape as a vehicle for expressing love, loss, and healing. Afterglow brings together the known mem......more

Dive into the intriguing world of ancient Roman and Greek sexuality with The Secret Erotic Paintings, a captivating tran......more

William Morris (1834-96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservation......more

This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until......more

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and pra......more

During the French Revolution of 1830, insurgents raised some four thousand barricades. Afterward, lithographs of the str......more

Easter hues for the soul: Relax, color, and embrace serenity! Our Easter Coloring Book is designed for adults and teens ......more

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British women’s writing during the French Revolution and Napo......more

A beautifully produced facsimile of the last known intact sketchbook by J. M. W. Turner J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) seld......more

Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested a......more

The hauntingly beautiful work of Germany’s most renowned Romantic painter springs to life in the pages of this beautiful......more

Literary look at "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Vol. Thirteen" by Elbert Hubbard takes readers on an exci......more

Winner of the Klaus Heyne Award for Research in German Romanticism *Includes 47 images In the nineteenth century, a clus......more