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

A fascinating study of the art and influence of one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters. With texts by leading...  Read More >>

An art-historical analysis of the Shroud of Turin as a sacred image in the artistic culture of early modern Italy....  Read More >>

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing...  Read More >>

Universally celebrated for his rosy and concupiscent nudes, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was an artist whose first...  Read More >>

Die Typographia Medicea (1584–1614) hatte eine Sonderstellung unter den römischen Offizinen inne – unterstützt von...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Publikation befasst sich mit der Malerei der Frühen Neuzeit unter dem Aspekt ihres kommunikativen...  Read More >>

This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age Painter Frans Hals's highly innovative approach to male...  Read More >>

Richly illustrated and engagingly written, this publication examines how the pioneer of French classicism brought...  Read More >>

"Die Gegenreformation begünstigte einen regelrechten Bauboom, allerorts wurden neue Gotteshäuser errichtet als Zeichen...  Read More >>

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Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught...  Read More >>

This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán...  Read More >>

Luisa Roldán (1652-1706) was an accomplished Spanish Baroque artist, much admired during her lifetime for her exquisitely...  Read More >>

Diese Untersuchung von sechs hoch qualitatvollen Silberaltaren, die in Schlosskapellen aufgestellt waren, zeigt...  Read More >>

"Excellent study examines lives and work of American cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers, printers, painters,...  Read More >>

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

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

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

"Excellent study examines lives and work of American cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers, printers, painters,...  Read More >>

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

Am künstlerischen Umgang mit dem Naturmaterial Stein, seiner Verwendung und malerischen Nachahmung, lassen sich...  Read More >>

This is Volume I of the three-volume catalogue raisonne of all drawings considered by the authors to be by Rubens....  Read More >>

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Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas...  Read More >>

Nach dem reformatorischen Bildersturm statteten die Katholiken in Antwerpen und der niederlandischen Republik ihre...  Read More >>