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

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

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

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

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

This book studies the multifaceted impact of David Rizzio (c. 1533-1566), the Italian musician and courtier whose murder......more

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

A reappraisal of Veronese’s art as politically charged visual independence. Paolo Veronese’s sumptuous paintings, with t......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

How early modern Italian painting addressed the ways humans shape and are shaped by their environments. In the sixteenth......more

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

An illuminating comparative translation of Piero della Francesca’s pioneering Renaissance work on scientific perspective......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

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

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

Reveals how art shaped the economy, social order, and legal claims during the rise of capitalism. In the sixteenth centu......more

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Nuremberg developed into an international trading center in the heart of Europe between 1300 and 1600. Economy, politics......more

This book offers new insights into the history of Rome’s Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano through the perspective of......more

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

A volume dedicated to Albrecht Dürer’s series of woodcuts illustrating the Passion of Christ. An astonishing sixteenth-c......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 definitive survey of one of the masters of Italian Renaissance art, featuring groundbreaking new research by a leadi......more

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

While preparing for an event at the University of Sydney in 2017, a librarian turned to the back page of the library’s 1......more

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

Through several case studies, this book suggests ways in which the art of early modern Venice, particularly its painting......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

This book establishes novel points of connection between European art and medicine in early modernity, opening up new pe......more

An accessible life of the fifteenth-century painter and instructor of Michelangelo. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-94) was a......more

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

Building on Koenraad Jonckheere’s seminal monographs from 2007 and 2011, this book offers fresh insights into the works ......more

The Brothel and Beyond deepens our understanding of women’s engagement in urban life through a close study of Venice’s s......more

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

A collector’s edition of a world-historical classic In 1907, Pavel Muratov, a budding littérateur and art connoisseur fr......more

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

One remarkable feature of European culture as it developed in the Renaissance was the accommodation it made with ancient......more

This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing them as ......more

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

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

The Italian Renaissance has been studied above all as a cultural phenomenon related to the 15th-century rediscovery of a......more

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

The present volume is the first of eight that read Christian art and architecture in relation to Scripture and exegesis,......more

"Pieter Bruegel the Elder" by Virgil Barker offers an insightful exploration into the world of one of the most distincti......more

Dive into a meticulously researched historical study of one of the Renaissance’s most enigmatic masterpieces with Mary F......more

"Mantegna and Francia" by Julia Cartwright offers an illuminating biographical journey into the lives and works of two p......more

"Mantegna and Francia" by Julia Cartwright offers an illuminating biographical journey into the lives and works of two p......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

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