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

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

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

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

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"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

The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every a......more

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

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

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

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

Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective sta......more

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

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

We all look to our past to define our present, but we don’t always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subseq......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

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

This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its terr......more

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

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

The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor is a poetic image that borrows from the vocabulary of weaving and epitomize......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

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

Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, ......more

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

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

In 1454 the Sienese painter Francesco di Bartolomeo Alfei faced litigation from the Mercanzia in Siena for defaulting on......more

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

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

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

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

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

Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus D......more

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

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

The women whose lives and artistic patronage are explored in this volume provide a rich and representative sample of the......more

A revealing portrait of class relations during the Italian Renaissance explored through the artistic representations of ......more

This book offers new scholarly perspectives on diverse roles that gardens played in Italian Renaissance culture as sites......more

This book reassesses the idea that Islamic objects in seventeenth-century Italy were considered mere curiosities, sparki......more

When the term, Grotesques, first arose around the year 1500 in Italy, it referred specifically to ornamental frescoes fe......more

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Unveiling the treasures of the Schroder Collection, one of the finest collections of Renaissance silver, paintings, work......more

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Japan sent its first diplomatic delegations to visit the popes an......more

One of the most influential painters of the Baroque era, Caravaggio transformed art history with his dramatic use of lig......more

The story of the use of the drill in European sculpture has not yet been written, although it should be fascinating, sta......more

In his Canzoniere, Petrarch evokes the image of the "crystal heart" as a metaphor for a correspondence between the inner......more

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) epitomizes the humanistic id......more

On Michelangelo’s first day in Rome, in June 1496, Cardinal Raffaele Riario asked him if he could create ’something beau......more

12 months of amazing paintings from the strange world of Hieronymus Bosch. A fine new art calendar from Flame Tree. Hier......more

A monograpgh dedicated to the leading German Reformation artist, Lucas Cranach, who was one of the most influential nort......more

In this series of essays focused on spiritual sensibilities in Renaissance art and its legacies, authors present origina......more

Some of the finest drawings by the world-famous artist, inventor and scientist. A fine new art calendar from Flame Tree.......more

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as "being of an orderly and diligent position"......more

All the paintings in the Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, in alphabetical order by the names of the artists with a br......more

The cover of this book shows a closely-knit community of artists and craftsmen which was portrayed in 1615 by the Augsbu......more