Art & design styles: Baroque books

An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through...  Read More >>

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year ""This book resees...  Read More >>

On discovering Tassi's betrayal, Orazio took the case to court and there followed, in 1612, eight months of humiliation...  Read More >>

Durchgangig farbig bebilderte profunde Darstellung der Ausbildung Effners im Bauburo des Franzosen Boffrand. Der...  Read More >>

Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

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Fur seine wohlgeformten, lasziven nackten Frauen beruhmt, war Peter Paul Rubens erstes Anliegen die Darstellung...  Read More >>

A critical translation of the unabridged Italian text of Domenico Bernini's biography of his father, seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Die Befreiung von der osmanischen Herrschaft 1716 bedeutete fur das Banat den erneuten Anschluss an Mitteleuropa....  Read More >>

Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and his Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of...  Read More >>

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

Intends to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, this book discusses specific and synoptic...  Read More >>

Three hundred years ago, an unprecedented explosion in inexpensive, disposable print--newspapers, pamphlets, informational...  Read More >>

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Explores performative aspects of Baroque culture, giving examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life,...  Read More >>

It was not until the middle of the 20th century that Caravaggio, an Italian painter long considered controversial,...  Read More >>

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Pieter Soutman, painter, draftsman, and printmaker, is often cited for his relationship to Pieter Paul Rubens' studio...  Read More >>

Illustrates and examines the sumptuous works of Peter Paul Rubens held in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of...  Read More >>

Centring on the ""Lacemaker"" from the Musee du Louvre, this book features three experts in the field who explain...  Read More >>

Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age  Read More >>

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Culled from a rare 19th-century source, these 124 black-and-white illustrations capture the lavish devices and grand...  Read More >>

Includes more than 100 illustrations of rococo art depict mythological figures, images from nature, including real...  Read More >>