An intriguing story of the search for, and discovery of, a wonderful and rare work of art thought lost for centuries. In......more
This book is a fresh, archivally nourished study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eig......more
This biography follows the remarkable life of Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, whose portraits of European royalty and no......more
Neer uncovers a key moment in the history of early modern art, when painting was understood to be a tool for self-transf......more
The lasting influence of a master of Dutch painting. More than any other artist, the painter Rembrandt developed charism......more
Most surveys of the history of art come neatly packaged. They are divided up into historic periods, artistic schools and......more
In July 1980 London’s National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson an......more
The Baroque advertising strategies of self-marketing masters Rubens and Goltzius. How do artists ensure that their works......more
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This beautifully illustrated, expansive overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creati......more
- Includes new scholarship on the painting by a leading scholar - Features intricate details Celebrating masterpieces of......more
A focus on Caravaggio’s last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, telling the story of an empowered female saint In earl......more
A complete history of Bohemian architecture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The art of the seventeenth ......more
Relics, Dreams, Voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque......more
Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Wr......more
During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand re......more
Nicholas Hawksmoor’s dream of a new Oxford, though only partly realized between 1708 and 1736, remains one of the most s......more
From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, explores the relation......more
Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn’s radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challe......more
Die Publikation ist dem illustrierten französischen Thesenblatt des 17. Jahrhunderts aus historischer und gattungstheore......more
"A examination of one of the key artists of the early-modern era from the point of view of the business considerations t......more
Eine Szene voller Anmut, Eleganz und kultivierter Geschäftigkeit: Mit Antoine Watteaus (1684-1721) "Ladenschild des Kuns......more
In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility i......more
Four works by the great Italian artist Guercino. This gem of a catalog accompanies an exhibition at Waddesdon Manor on o......more
A university professor of fine art and art history walks into an empty church in New York, seeking peace and clarity, an......more
This book sheds new light on Delft pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries. During this period, the Delft pottery indus......more
This book brings together a number of important older texts and three new, unpublished essays on the work and reception ......more
Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a l......more
This stunning volume is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to French artist Louise Moillon. The life and c......more
It is the catalog of the first Florentine exhibition dedicated to the painter Giovanni Stradano (Jan van der Straet, Bru......more
An in-depth analysis of Rembrandt’s striking self-portrait and its personal and political undertones The Dutch painter R......more
Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersec......more
The decoration of the Luxembourg Palace galleries was the largest commission Rubens ever received. On Saturday 26 Februa......more
Das 18. Jahrhundert war das Zeitalter der Kunstkenner: in und zugleich Ära eines globalen Bewusstseins, das aus dem sich......more
The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection ......more
This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Wal......more
Outgrowth of the author’s thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2018, under the title: Maids, wives and widows: fe......more
Outgrowth of the author’s thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 2018, under the title: Maids, wives and widows: fe......more
Arnout Balis (1952-2021), one of the greatest Rubens authorities of his generation and beyond, stood for openness and in......more
Teresa of Ávila’s cult was dramatically disseminated in previously unknown celebrations honoring her beatification (1614......more
- Accompanies the exhibition of the same title at The Ringling, Sarasota FL, from 14 October 2023-07January 2024 - First......more
Significant innovations in portraiture occurred during the transitional period from the end of the sixteenth-century to ......more
Originating as a doctoral dissertation and first published in 1926, Ernst Kris’s The Rustic Style is a pioneering inquir......more
A study of a private collection of European porcelain and the history of porcelain more broadly. Brittle Beauty presents......more
- This richly illustrated book accompanies the exhibition of the same name in the St Charles Borromeo Church, the Museum......more
"Seventeenth-century Dutch art is famed throughout the world. Yet how ’Dutch’ are those paintings in actual fact? Did th......more
- Entirely devoted to the masterpiece of Baroque art in Florence - Luca Giordano was one of the most appreciated artist ......more
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This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between......more
The Man with the Slouch Hat by Frans Hals is one of the best-known masterpieces of Kassel’s Picture Gallery. During his ......more
New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunde......more
A thoughtful look at representations of people experiencing poverty in early modern Europe. The northern Italian artist ......more
This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch Rep......more
This is Volume II in the three-volume catalogue raisonne of the drawings by Rubens covering the years 1609-20. The proje......more
Tracing the cultural, political and artistic developments over a 17-year period in Beirut’s modern history This volume c......more
Godefridus Schalcken: A Late 17th-century Dutch Painter in Pursuit of Fame and Fortune is the first book in English dedi......more
A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth cen......more
How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers in Western Eu......more
"This scholarly publication presents the work of the designer, painter and illustrator Claude Gillot (1673-1722). The fi......more
This book opens a window onto a fascinating and understudied aspect of the visual, material, intellectual, and cultural ......more
Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of Western painting and baroque art, a technical master reno......more
Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ’over the top’ and ’excessive’. Their material richness and exciti......more
Did Spain fall into decline or flourish in the seventeenth century? This edited collection looks at perceptions and repr......more
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The first comprehensive study of William Ince and John Mayhew’s famous eighteenth-century cabinetmaking partnership, com......more
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Intermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship ......more
Around 1600, a new style of sculpture started to evolve and flourish in the German-speaking lands. Dramatic wood and sto......more
The house that Rubens built a few years after his return to Antwerp from Italy, and where he lived to the end of his lif......more
A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figu......more
Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of pe......more
An investigation into how landscape drawing informed a new Dutch identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Thr......more
A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in eighteenth-century France What can be gained from consi......more
Why is something a masterpiece? Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams is about revisiting famous works of art that we ......more
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated study of a cycle of frescoes that generations of scholars previously thought t......more
Armida reaches out to Rinaldo armed with a long knife. She hates him, she wants to kill him. Cupid restrains her arm, bu......more
Interpreting Art reveals subtle features of art writing that are central to the often unnoticed interpretative practices......more
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuc......more
The essays collected in this volume are devoted to the Utrecht painter Abraham Bloemaert. The artist has received consid......more
(Bilingual edition: English/ German) Rubens’s The Crucifixion of Saint Peter still hangs today in the location for which......more
Daffodils, pink roses with heads bowed, an orange lily, flaming tulips, bright blue irises and dozens of other flowers f......more
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"Accompanying an exhibition of works by prominent Baroque artists, at the Villa Mondragone, a Renaissance Papal Villa in......more
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The central theme of Rubens’s paintings is the human figure, often represented nude or partially clothed and involved in......more
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An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the North American east coast: how did it end up in t......more
Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre......more
His works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor ......more
With lips slightly parted and eyes fixed on a point in the distance, a breathtaking marble portrait of Costanza Piccolom......more
When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, vast networks of production that had provided splendor and sophistic......more
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