Art & design styles: Baroque books

According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service...  Read More >>

This book presents masterworks of Italian painting and sculpture from the 16th through 18th centuries drawn from...  Read More >>

An introduction to the life and art of the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, known for his portraits, self-portraits,...  Read More >>

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A beautiful book which will be a useful reference for all those interested in Vermeer, and a perfect gift  Read More >>

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

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Der Regensburger Dom im Herzen des UNESCO-Weltkulturerbes gilt weithin als ungewohnlicher und faszinierender Vertreter...  Read More >>

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications....  Read More >>

The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace...  Read More >>

An award-winning play by Breach Theatre that restages the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter...  Read More >>

[...] adorned with bright colors -these or similar words are used in the inventories of Dresden's Green Vault to...  Read More >>

Encompassing a broad spectrum of methodological approaches and aims, the scholars contributing to this volume offer...  Read More >>

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Discover one of the most admired artists in history: Johannes Vermeer. Complete with crisp reproductions, details,...  Read More >>

By the time of its completion in 1621, the former Jesuit church in Antwerp was one of the most brilliant achievements...  Read More >>

Barocke Elfenbeinkunst bietet ein facettenreiches Spektrum an kunsthistorischen Betrachtungs- und Interpretationsmoglichkeiten....  Read More >>

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini...  Read More >>

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Presents detailed studies and superb illustrations of eighty-two of Rubens's most eloquent oil sketches, and two...  Read More >>

This whole work is dominated by the idea of the victory of love, goodness and charity. The event is treated as the...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Iconologia: Or, Moral Emblems Iconologia: Or, Moral Emblems was written by Cesare Ripa in 1709. This...  Read More >>