History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800 books

Richly illustrated, this accompanying exhibition catalogue is a contemporary look at baroque masterpieces.  Read More >>

This Element focuses on the 'content' of illustrations and its adaptation within the framework of a new medium;...  Read More >>

This is an accessibly written, illustrated biography of Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), one of the...  Read More >>

"The Man with the Slouch Hat by Frans Hals is one of the best-known masterpieces of Kassel’s Picture Gallery. During...  Read More >>

"""Featuring beautiful full-color images of Dutch paintings throughout, this stunning book about one of the most...  Read More >>

This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain...  Read More >>

Brittle Beauty presents a superlative private collection of European porcelain – radical, rare and in many cases...  Read More >>

Anniversary publication of the Belvedere The Belvedere in Vienna epitomizes the changes that have taken place...  Read More >>

"""Featuring beautiful full-color images of Dutch paintings throughout, this stunning book about one of the most...  Read More >>

This book examines a largely unexplored facet of French art: landscape painting in Revolutionary France.  Read More >>

Examines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worlds...  Read More >>

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generationDLfrom Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy, to...  Read More >>

Explores sacred portraits in early modern Spain and Latin America and their use in mediating an individual’s relationship...  Read More >>

Explores the visual idioms that made, sustained, revised, and resisted Cartesian philosophy. Locates Descartes’s...  Read More >>

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the listener into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden...  Read More >>

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the listener into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden...  Read More >>

"In 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733-99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern...  Read More >>

A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected in this moving account...  Read More >>

Addresses and expands the role of the artist in colonial Latin American society. Broadening the range of ways that...  Read More >>

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the listener into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden...  Read More >>

Addresses and expands the role of the artist in colonial Latin American society. Broadening the range of ways that...  Read More >>

Natural phenomena such as the four seasons have always been part of human experience and are coming to the fore...  Read More >>

Über die berühmten Stichfolgen des im Jahre 1700 in Augsburg geborenen und 1761 in Wien verstorbenen Vedutenzeichners...  Read More >>

This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch...  Read More >>

Die Dresdner Kunstkammer im Residenzschloss bietet eine faszinierende Vielfalt von Sammlungsobjekten der Spätrenaissance...  Read More >>