History of Art & Design Styles: c 1600 to c 1800

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, schol...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...

Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals,...

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions. There has been, however, ...

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartrams journey through what would become the southeastern United States   William Bartram, autho...

Luca Giordano (Naples, 16341705) was one of Italys most celebrated Baroque painters when he travelled to Florence, where his art was already apprec...

This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japans period of seclusion, to its age of modernization...

**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historian...

Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prés area of Paris, Moillon was the sole ...

Sofonisba Anguissola (c.15321625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of the first women artists of Europe t...