Art & design styles: Classicism books

"""Published on the occasion of the exhibition Classicisms, curated by Larry F. Norman and Anne Leonard, organized...  Read More >>

Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book explores what is at stake in this cliché and how it has helped countless...  Read More >>

A visually stunning and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition seen through ancient Greek eyes, with...  Read More >>

In this volume, Pop examines how art of the mid 1700s and early 1800s - inspired by translations of Greek tragedy...  Read More >>

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of...  Read More >>

Recent years have seen an increase of interest in classicism and the reception and survival of antiquity.  Read More >>

HOW WONDERFULLY PRIVILEGED YOU ARE. YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED BY GOD, AND ONLY GOD. Contrary to popular belief, all...  Read More >>

The promotion of classicism in the visual arts in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Latin America and the need...  Read More >>

A collection of celestial maps by Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (c 1596 - 1665)...  Read More >>

It is the aim of this work to examine the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) as a judge of classical...  Read More >>

The finest and most comprehensive baroque atlas was Joan Blaeu's exceptional Atlas Maior , completed in 1665. This...  Read More >>

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Accompanying the first-ever exhibition devoted to English neo-classical silver and held in 2010, this book brings...  Read More >>

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French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) spent his life in Rome turning out works that fused the features of Renaissance...  Read More >>

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This catalogue completes the publication of the ancient Greek and Etruscan vases in the collection of the Reading...  Read More >>

The French Revolution was marked by a wealth of imagery and visual symbolism that inspired the masses to fight for...  Read More >>

An illustrated catalogue that includes an incisive series of essays that explore portraiture in Europe and North...  Read More >>

French Neoclassical painter, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was one of the 19th century's major portrait and historical...  Read More >>

Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts...  Read More >>

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"George Stubbs (1724-1806) was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. He produced the drawings for...  Read More >>

This title illustrates the importance of semi-learned mythographic handbooks in the social, literary, and artistic...  Read More >>