Art & design styles: Baroque books

At first, a successful painter of the Roman Baroque, Pietro (Berrettini) da Cortona (1597-1669) soon emerged as...  Read More >>

Since antiquity, still lifes have held the fascination of artists and viewers alike. With 120 works rom the Baroque...  Read More >>

How does architecture relate to 17th century Dutch painting? This title analyzes the painting of Pieter De Hooch...  Read More >>

De tous temps les artistes ont cherche a transmettre leurs reflexions theoriques et leurs savoir-faire. Les traites...  Read More >>

Presenting a fundamentally revised history, this book argues in favor of a collaborative process of execution, in...  Read More >>

Best known for his fetes galantes such as the famous Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)...  Read More >>

Goethe called Adam Friedrich Oeser, his teacher of all things aesthetical, one of the most talented people of our...  Read More >>

The collection of French decorative arts in the J Paul Getty Museum contains more than 400 pieces, most of them...  Read More >>

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This work by Jeremias Held (Henry Green, no. 74) is the second German translation of the emblems of Andrea Alciato,...  Read More >>

This volume is published in honour of Lucy Freeman Sandler, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, Emerita...  Read More >>

Combining the expertise in biblical studies and art history, this book uses a methodology that is both historical...  Read More >>

Explores the ways in which Spanish Imperial authority was manifested in a system of representation for subjects...  Read More >>

The themes of this collection include historicism, commemoration, style and meaning, and the artist's intelligence....  Read More >>

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The themes of this collection include historicism, commemoration, style and meaning, and the artist's intelligence....  Read More >>

Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Maremma Art and Archeological Museum in Grosseto, Italy, presenting masterpieces...  Read More >>

Sixty-three original frames, most previously unpublished, from the Palatine Gallery, the Museo degli Argenti in...  Read More >>

Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject...  Read More >>

'St John's Co-Cathedral' is a guidebook about this gem of baroque art and architecture with its rich history and...  Read More >>

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In July 1608, Caravaggio was invested with the habit of Magistral Obedience by Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master...  Read More >>

Conceived as a sequel to the critically acclaimed ""Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence"" (2002),...  Read More >>

This catalog volume presents - for the first time - the classicistic porcelains from manufacturers in Vienna, Berlin...  Read More >>