Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers all aspects of Rococo art history through a chronology, an introductory essay......more
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This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742).......more
Long dismissed as dull face painting, portraiture as a visual art gained new interest with the rise of contextual art hi......more
The exhibition Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor, which opened at the Metropolitan Museum in 2007, was the ......more
Table of Contents: Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Introduction - Eric Jan Sluijter, The Nude, the Artist and the Model: The......more
Between 1740 and 1780, Empress Maria Theresa governed the Habsburg Empire, a multilingual conglomeration of states cente......more
Los frescos de Giordano en Espana, Andres Ubeda de los Cobos, Mattia Preti en SantAndrea della Valle. Note sulla tecnica......more
Los frescos de Giordano en Espana, Andres Ubeda de los Cobos, Mattia Preti en SantAndrea della Valle. Note sulla tecnica......more
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This book celebrates the 300th-year anniversary of Francesco Zahra s birth in 1710 and seeks to show the extraordinary r......more
Delivered three times between 1898 and 1902 and subsequently revised with an eye toward publication, Alois Riegl’s lectu......more
Focusing specifically on Thomas Gainsborough s portraits of well-known, liberated , society women, Thomas Gainsborough ......more
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A reevaluation of Gabriel Metsu, one of the leading genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) emp......more
The Andean Hybrid Baroque is the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern P......more
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the Fren......more
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The print repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries in England has been neglected historically, and this remarkable book......more
A richly illustrated reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today’s leading art historians This is a groundbreaking exam......more
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This book explores how and why perceptions of the British monarchy in visual culture changed during a period of growing ......more
Every extant work by Caravaggio is reproduced in color in this lavish newly updated volume, the long-awaited result of m......more
This volume offers a series of essays that explore the significance of visual imagery as a medium for the representation......more
As early as the 1950s, Professor Irving Lavin was -recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained pr......more
This book presents both an overview of the print production in the 17th century Southern Low Countries and a focused app......more
In a broad-ranging and exceptional work of cultural and art history, Marcia Pointon explores what owning, wearing, distr......more
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During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representat......more
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Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual......more
First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural edu......more
Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668), known as a passionate painter of horses, varied his popular main theme imaginatively in a......more
English summary: This book retraces the first one hundred years of the Fabbrica di Doccia, from 1737 to 1837, presenting......more
These three centuries offer a broad range of artists and their works. Sometimes it is hard to find access and to maintai......more
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Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 - Prometheus Bound, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucipp......more
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigatio......more
Rembrandt was, above all, a painter and etcher of scenes from the Old and New Testaments and it is in the description of......more
This collection of essays presents a status quaestionis concerning the dissemination of Flemish and Dutch art during the......more
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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803), a remarkable portraitist, was among the small number of women ever granted membersh......more
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The fifth volume examines all the works painted by anonymous masters. Most works of the 15th and early 16th centuries ar......more
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum focusing on the conservation of the Victoria and ......more
The Steenwyck family - Hendrick the Elder and his son Hendrick the Younger, together with the latter s wife Susanna Gasp......more
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How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt’s age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet S......more
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In this critical darling Vermeer s captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and tho......more
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The Drama of the Portrait examines the motif of portraiture in Spanish Golden Age theater, drawing from a wide range of ......more
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) lived and worked in Rome from 1600 to 1610. While artists like Ca......more
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Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest Dutch painters and for some the single greatest painter of all, produced a remarka......more
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This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with ......more
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A lavishly illustrated study of the charming genre paintings of Vermeer and his contemporaries The appealing genre paint......more
The piazza Navona is one of the most celebrated urban spaces in Rome and perhaps Europe. Despite its lasting fame, neith......more
This latest volume in the Art Through the Centuries series presents the most important artists and artistic concepts of ......more
As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the poss......more
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Culled from a rare 19th-century source, these 124 black-and-white illustrations capture the lavish devices and grand swe......more
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The Art of Allegiance explores the ways in which Spanish imperial authority was manifested in a compelling system of rep......more
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As early as the 1950s, Professor Irving Lavin was -recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained pr......more
Conceived as a sequel to the critically acclaimed Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (2002), this lavishl......more
The Royal Collection contains one of the finest and most varied collections of Old Master paintings in the world. The 14......more
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This is the first catalogue raisonn, of Frans Post (1612-1680) published in over 30 years. Post is the first trained art......more
Johann Paul Schor (1615-1674), born in Austria, became known as a very creative and independent assistant to Bernini and......more