The Arts: General & Reference books

Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. This edited collection brings together 20 articles...  Read More >>

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This book is entirely devoted to the research performed over the years into Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, an icon of Western...  Read More >>

On the one hand, this study uncovers how approaches to knowledge production differed in the 17th century as compared...  Read More >>

This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700....  Read More >>

Michael Tutton investigates the representation of building processes and materials through an examination of paintings,...  Read More >>

The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually...  Read More >>

This is the first study to bring together all twenty-nine extant copies of the medieval Commentary on the Apocalypse,...  Read More >>

This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titian’s Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso...  Read More >>

This book examines ephemeral exhibition spaces from 1750-1918, focusing on domestic interiors and public exhibitions...  Read More >>

Angela Ho shows how Dutch painters in the mid- to late 17th century used repetition to project a distinctive artistic...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the evolving taste for Bolognese art during the seventeenth century,...  Read More >>

This book offers a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and representation...  Read More >>

This book, grounded in archival research and close examination of artworks from The Poor Clares convent of Corpus...  Read More >>

This book gives an overview of attitudes toward animals in the long eighteenth century from an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists...  Read More >>

This book investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy.  Read More >>

In this book, the sublime is understood as a complex and culturally specific meeting point between philosophical...  Read More >>

This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of...  Read More >>

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas – not least the idea of the power...  Read More >>

Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is...  Read More >>

This book examines the history of Siena's famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventual...  Read More >>

Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new...  Read More >>

This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient...  Read More >>

On the complex interrelations between individuals and technological systems within the context of our progressively...  Read More >>