Art & design styles: Baroque books

Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France constructs the first cultural history of porcelain-making...  Read More >>

Engraved in the 19th century, these flamboyant ornamental designs are based on a wide variety of historical examples,...  Read More >>

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

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From Ancient Egypt to the Arab Spring, iconoclasm has occurred throughout history and across cultures. Both a vehicle...  Read More >>

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

A generously illustrated, introductory biography of Caravaggio and his art.  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 >>

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Diego Velazquez makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers...  Read More >>

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Jan Vermeer makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers...  Read More >>

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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 >>

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Caravaggio makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers...  Read More >>

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

Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like Garc a M rquez...  Read More >>

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