Art & design styles: Baroque books

Always recognised as a master print from the moment of its appearance around 1649, the Hundred Guilder Print is...  Read More >>

Church interiors, cortegaerdjes, scenes of everyday life, tronies, landscapes, spoockerijen, group portraits, bambocciate,...  Read More >>

English summary: On this tour through the history of art, we learn how painters - e.g. Giotto, Caravaggio or William...  Read More >>

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone  Read More >>

English summary: In the period around 1500, the treasures of Wurzburg Cathedral included a rich collection of relics....  Read More >>

Volume II of an iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter, with an important...  Read More >>

Volume I of an iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter, with an important...  Read More >>

Through historical coincidence that almost takes on a mythical character, 'Michelangelo' was the given name not...  Read More >>

17th-Century Netherlandish Still Life painting actively participated in the intellectual discourse of natural philosophy...  Read More >>

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound....  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive publication on Scottish portraiture from the period 1644 to 1714, with an emphasis...  Read More >>

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"Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione - dieser Name steht fur alles, was noch heute am Barock so fasziniert: die Feier...  Read More >>

An exploration of Nicolas Poussin’s influential classical style through his paintings of dance and dancers  Read More >>

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Murillo has attracted particular attention from historians since the seventeenth century to the present day, though...  Read More >>

Das Brieflesende Madchen am offenen Fenster von Johannes Vermeer in der Dresdner Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister ist...  Read More >>

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Universally celebrated for his rosy and concupiscent nudes, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was an artist whose first...  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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This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán...  Read More >>