History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800 books

Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this book examines the unique artistic and cultural exchange between...  Read More >>

The Great Mughals presents, for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the...  Read More >>

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Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary...  Read More >>

The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution will be broadly relevant to scholars of art, media and...  Read More >>

This absorbing monograph is the first to detail the captivating life and oeuvre of the Dutch artist Gesina ter Borch....  Read More >>

Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts, they have been relatively...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral...  Read More >>

Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural...  Read More >>

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This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan's period of seclusion,...  Read More >>

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Anthony Langdon’s guide to Rome’s baroque palaces, a companion to Anthony Blunt’s A Guide to Baroque Rome: The Churches....  Read More >>

Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Print, 1400-1800 considers the diverse social, historical and cultural...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, in-depth examination of nearly three centuries of sculptural production from France’s famous Sèvres...  Read More >>

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The book examines the representation of affective complexity in the literary and pictorial arts of Northern Europe...  Read More >>

The book examines the myth of Hercules and Omphale which became an important topic in the visual arts, 1500-1800....  Read More >>

Rembrandt was revered as a genius during his lifetime and has fascinated generations of artists and connoisseurs...  Read More >>

Published to accompany Dürer to Van Dyck: Drawings from Chatsworth House, at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh,...  Read More >>

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With little scholarly attention having been given to the late medieval iconography that features on rood screens...  Read More >>

Innovative exploration of the Brussels Baroque and the social dimensions of art production. In seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

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This volume explores how late sixteenth to late eighteenth-century European naturalists and artists perceived, recorded,...  Read More >>