Art & design styles: Romanticism books

"This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten...  Read More >>

From night skies to morning mists to the much-cited Wanderer above a Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich mastered...  Read More >>

Renowned landscapist and precursor to the Impressionist movement, Joseph Mallord William Turner shook up the art...  Read More >>

Examines the role occupied by the senses and the self in approaches to literary mimesis in nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

Little-known outside his native country, Ivan Aivazovsky is one of the pillars of Russian art. His body of work...  Read More >>

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"""Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe's readable yet detailed history supplemented with...  Read More >>

"""Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe's readable yet detailed history supplemented with...  Read More >>

Examines the emergence and stabilization of the barricade as a symbol of revolution in mid-nineteenth-century France....  Read More >>

This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

Discover William Blake's complete 102 illustrations for The Divine Comedy, with excerpts from Dante's epic poem....  Read More >>

De son voyage à Nantes au printemps 1790, Jacques Louis David rapporta une vaste composition allégorique, inspirée...  Read More >>

"In art history, the Belgian romantic artist Antoine Joseph Wiertz (1806-65) is often considered as the prototype...  Read More >>

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in six British women's travel accounts of the French Revolution...  Read More >>

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in six British women's travel accounts of the French Revolution...  Read More >>

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Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the contested...  Read More >>

An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals...  Read More >>

This edition presents and fully contextualizes an archive of letters that reveal the creative and personal significance...  Read More >>

"""Vikings: Shipping and Trading Lessons from History"" explores Viking trade practices and draws lessons for modern...  Read More >>

"Literary look at ""Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Vol. Thirteen"" by Elbert Hubbard takes readers...  Read More >>

Theodor Fontane und Adolph Menzel z�hlen zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Realisten. Die Studie macht auf bisher unbekannte...  Read More >>

Der tragische Lebensweg des Landschaftsmalers Carl Blechen, der 1840 mit nur 41 Jahren in geistiger Umnachtung starb,...  Read More >>

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