A first look at a newly discovered work by one of the great artists of the Renaissance In January 2020, a previously unr......more

An authoritative annual record of scientific research and conservation carried out at the National Gallery, London The N......more

An examination of the representation of female identity, creativity and power at the intersections of drama, literature,......more

Physical cleansing is an anthropological constant. The bath serves hygienic as well as ritual purposes and can also be r......more

No other artist active beyond the main centers of the Italian Renaissance rivals the achievements of Correggio (1489-153......more

Repositions Ghiberti as a Renaissance innovator through his material and design brilliance. Lorenzo Ghiberti was the mos......more

The landmark study of the first major woman painter of the Renaissance--now revised and expanded to include new discover......more

A new title in the Flame Tree Foiled Quarto Journal collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production: bl......more

Writings on black men’s cultural production and black masculinity by one of today’s leading historians of modern and con......more

A major re-evaluation of Francisco de Zurbarán, master of Spain’s Golden Age. Francisco de Zurbarán painted with unmatch......more

Reveals the hidden power of medieval manuscript decoration and its lasting influence today. The overlooked art of late m......more

Explore the incredible artwork of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci in this beautiful hardback compilation of more th......more

This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offere......more

Art books for the modern consumer - short, considered, and beautiful, this one features the joyful impressionism of Dega......more

A richly illustrated investigation of how the adoption of canvas revolutionized Venetian Renaissance painting, from the ......more

Raphael (1483-1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and L......more

Diese Publikation eröffnet neue Einblicke in die Geschichte der römischen Basilika San Giovanni in Laterano. Sie rekonst......more

This book examines a small group of sixteenth-century Antwerp artworks depicting the butchering of beached whales, revea......more

Condivi’s unparalleled biography presents his friend Michelangelo’s life, work and struggles in the world of Papal polit......more

Francisco de Holanda’s Dialogues record Michelangelo’s participation in art discussions hosted by Vittoria Colonna, reve......more

An unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy that considers the ecolo......more

The Antic Root explores the relations among art, sense-experience, and the conception of the world in the early modern e......more

The Antic Root explores the relations among art, sense-experience, and the conception of the world in the early modern e......more

This is the first book in English dedicated to Caravaggio’s life and work in Sicily. It examines the four Sicilian altar......more

Walter Pater’s first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and......more

This monumental book is the first monograph devoted to the Sienese artist Lorenzo di Pietro, known as Vecchietta (1410-1......more

Illuminates Giambologna’s oeuvre and artistic milieu, whose creations had a lasting influence on late Renaissance art. O......more

Nürnberg entwickelte sich zwischen 1300 und 1600 zu einem global vernetzten Handelszentrum. Wirtschaft, Politik, Kunst u......more

With the official support of the Vatican, this book is the result of years of careful micro-photography faithfully docum......more

This book opens up new perspectives on the relationship between art, medicine, and science in late-medieval and early mo......more

The complete paintings of the prototypical Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the archetype of the "Renaissa......more

From the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, God’s Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance,......more

Die Gewehrgalerie im Langen Gang des Dresdner Residenzschlosses präsentiert rund 500 einzigartige Handfeuerwaffen aus de......more

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Portraits of Italian mercenary captains (condottieri) constitute a representative part of the earliest 15th-century Rena......more

Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming parado......more

A definitive biography of the artist who, more than any other, has shaped our image of the Tudor court This landmark sch......more

A reconsideration of Filippino Lippi’s transformative Roman period and the ensuing evolution of his innovative style, as......more

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This exciting and wide-ranging volume examines the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during th......more

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, ......more

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533- c.1600), a Florentine sculptor a......more

This volume charts alternative courses through history via the physical conditions and artisanal ecologies in which cult......more

"What do you do when your husband gets the best job in the country in a field that he stole from you? Well, that’s what ......more

Holy Children is a collection of essays that offers an innovative exploration of the visualization and materiality of in......more

Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But duri......more

This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth-......more

Not since Edward Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in Engli......more

The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quali......more

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golde......more

For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enablin......more

This book examines the history of Siena’s famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventual rep......more

This book presents four case studies that interrogate how German fifteenth-century painted triptychs engage with, and ul......more

This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titian’s Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso d......more

The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so i......more

French mercantile endeavors in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India were marked by novel intersections of aest......more

By almost any measure Bernardino Barbatelli, called Poccetti, was a successful and sought after painter in late 16th-cen......more

In the mid- to late seventeenth century, a number of Dutch painters created a new type of refined genre painting that wa......more

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth cent......more

At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. A member ......more

Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction betwee......more

In-Between Textiles is a decentred study of how textiles shaped, disrupted, and transformed subjectivities in the age of......more

Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic explor......more

Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materi......more

Satire, Veneration, and St. Joseph in Art, c. 1300.1550 is the first book to reclaim satire as a central component of Ca......more

Did ordinary Italians have a ’Renaissance’? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small ......more

The seventeenth century was a time of exceptional mobility for Netherlandish artists. This mobility had a profound impac......more

The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media investigates El Greco’s pictorial art as fou......more

The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain. This book pioneers in reconstructing ......more

This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, w......more

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Coverin......more

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 focuses on coins as material artefacts and agents of mea......more

The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch’s legacy informed the relationship betwee......more

Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaìzquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a ne......more

Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book......more