Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoreti......more

Engagingly written and profusely illustrated, this book offers readers a close-up "view from the scaffolding" of some of......more

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The MAK’s holdings of maiolica shown in a dialogue with other well-known Austrian and Central European collections A sch......more

Leonardo’s Fables explores the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables and their relationship to illustra......more

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This book is about is an image archive for artists, designers, and art lovers and takes into account historical sketches......more

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquit......more

A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to differ......more

Armor as a statement of fashion and political power in the Renaissance Bringing together some of the most spectacular ex......more

For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of painters who produced some of the gr......more

The artist’s workplace has always been an idealized utopia as well as the domain of dirty, backbreaking work. Written de......more

In a kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together. The ’C......more

During the period 1000-1700 major transformations took place in material culture. Quite simply, more objects were manufa......more

(Italian, English, German) La storia del collezionismo nell’età moderna è caratterizzata da una progressiva diversificaz......more

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, Emilia. Criti......more

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shiftin......more

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern p......more

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art......more

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

In this book Claudia Daniotti provides the first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexander the Great in Ren......more

This volume asks, how did theatrical practice shape the multiplying forms of conversion that emerged in early modern Eur......more

Offering particular insight into Filippino Lippi’s artistic problem-solving, an innovative look at the Renaissance maste......more

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

The genius behind Leonardo da Vinci’s artwork is introduced in this deluxe silkbound guide. Leonardo da Vinci’s desire f......more

Over the course of a century and a half more than forty late Gothic sculptures have been recognized as sharing a vocabul......more

The eighth volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on a stunning fourteenth-century painting, pairing an essay by Fri......more

This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Po......more

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

Among the most intriguing and confounding works of Jan van Eyck’s oeuvre are the Crucifixion and Last Judgment in New Yo......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This sumptuously illustrated book presents the most recent scholarship in English on Botticelli and Renaissance Florence......more

Hieronymus Bosch lived and worked over 500 hundred years ago in the Netherlands’ town of ’s-Hertogenbosch, from which he......more

Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance Man: an artist, mathematician, inventor and writer amongst his many talen......more

From Manet to Gericault, Daubigny to Corot, an insightful, breathtakingly original exploration of French art and literat......more

Explore the Complete Collection of Albrecht Durer’s Woodcut Artistry Among the greatest artistic expressions of all time......more

"An examination of an important yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintings: their lush and detailed backgr......more

An authoritative and comprehensive celebration of the life and work of one of the most prominent artists of the Venetian......more

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This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern peri......more

The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed re......more

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In 2004, Irving Lavin gave the six lectures that make up this book. They were delivered at the National Gallery of Art i......more

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Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini......more

This volume honors Maryan W. Ainsworth, curator emerita at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and former adjunct professor a......more

Do animals other than humans have consciousness? Do they knowingly feel and think, rather than simply respond to stimuli......more

When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what t......more

Leonardo da vinci was a famous artist and thinker. He created well-known paintings like the mona lisa and the last suppe......more

This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and post......more

Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his uniqu......more

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- Lot of images take the reader step by step through all the wonders of the palace - Boxes on important and specific top......more

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

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This illustrated guide to the Voynich Manuscript is targeted mainly at those who have recently come across the book and ......more

"If we have to point to one artist who represents the Uffizi Galleries, certainly Botticelli prevails even over Michelan......more

On account of the artists’ collaborative practice, Sebastiano del Piombo’s oeuvre is often misconstrued as a coloristic ......more