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The tremendous political, religious, and cultural changes that swept across Europe in the years from 1000 to 1800 fundamentally transformed the practices and purposes of painting and sculpture-from elaborately carved and gilded medieval Christian altars...

This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores an intersection of three themes trending in early modern studies: portraiture, gender and the court as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912675548Author Aryla PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Aryla PublishingPublisher Aryla PublishingWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and the strong contemporary market for works by Dutch masters of the period as well as the public's ongoing fascination with some of its...

This book explores the ways in which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and literature from the eighth to the eleventh century and in their modern scholarly and popular afterlives...

The Emergence of the Modern Museum, a unique compendium of original sources, presents a detailed and dynamic account of the development of the museum and its practices in Britain during a crucial period of formation. From poignant recollections of visits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857160133Author William FeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Northumbria PressPublisher McNidder & Grace

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) enjoyed European-wide fame during his lifetime. Dürer was not only a brilliant painter, but also a pioneering printmaker, experimental draughtsman, book publisher, first German art theoretician and amateur poet. His art was...

This provocative study asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts, even though research has shown that many artists and their works thrived under Hitler. To answer this question, Pamela M...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892366224Author Associate Curator of Drawings Lee HendrixFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University...

The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve is one of the most visited and attractive museums in Russia, the "fountain capital" of a huge country. Uniting today more than 30 expositions located on the territory of Peterhof, Alexandria, Strelna and Oranienbaum, the...

The Academie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibitions, enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions, and deeply influenced the artistic landscape in...

The book addresses the scientific debates on Rembrandt, Metsu, Vermeer, and Hoogstraten that are currently taking place in art history and cultural studies. These focus mainly on the representation of gender difference, the relationship between text and...

This book analyses the intermeshing of state power and art history in Europe since 1945 and up to the present from a critical, de-centered perspective. Devoting special attention to European peripheries and to under-researched transnational cultural...

Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his painting. This new edition, extensively illustrated, includes additional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796524Author Isabelle GrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm...

An elegant 17th century house on Cuenca Street in the historic center of Quito, long known as the Casa del Alabado (the House of Praise), is today an important museum of the same name. The Casa del Alabado Museum conserves some 5,000 archaeological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486498478Author La FontaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm)...

This book is about Welsh pictures painted between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, and why they matter today. It mainly concerns how pictures are understood by the people who use them - patrons, museum curators, and the general public - rather...

Between 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of the National Socialist state. Many artists emigrated. But what about the ones who remained in Germany? Under what social and economic conditions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854112866Author Alfred JanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 752g

Less is often more - such is Piet Mondrian's approach to art. His main pictorial elements are horizontals and verticals, his preferred colours yellow, red and blue. Throughout his life, Mondrian (1872-1944) applied these simple elements in his quest for...

This book examines the overlapping worlds of art and medicine in late-nineteenth-century France. It sheds new light on the relevance of the visual in medical and scientific cultures, and on the relationship between artistic and medical practices and...

Fascinating and mysterious, the idea of the harem long captured the imagination of the West. The Muslim practice of concealing the women of the household from the eyes of alien men tempted Europeans to extravagant projections of their own wishes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985147938Author Sam HiltFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Tuscany Tours PressPublisher Tuscany Tours PressWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993421785Author Gabriel RosenstockFormat PaperbackImprint Onslaught PressPublisher Onslaught PressWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983245162Author Einar RudFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 316g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674594029Author Professor Carl WoodringFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674180987Author Charles L KuhnFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 875g

Once described as 'brilliant but eccentric ... too licentious to be published', Gainsborough's letters delighted his friends and they delight us. This book gathers together all the known letters by the illustrious eighteenth-century British painter and...

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the development of archaeology and the study of ancient Greek architecture. He also exerted an influence on the Weimar...

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M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865592018Author Gregory NosanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Art Institute of ChicagoPublisher University of Illinois Press

Published to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, this accessible history explores the use of diamonds in works of art of all kinds, from personal and official jewellery and regalia to precious boxes and ceremonial swords. It examines the...

Acclaimed for its blending of realism with atmosphere, and for its deeply sensitive appreciation of character, the work of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez represents the undeniable pinnacle of the golden age of Spanish painting. Born in Seville but...

William L. Wyllie (1851-1931) has long had a devoted following in nautical circles for his depictions of Naval subjects and engagements of 1914-1918. This book presents for the first time a balanced and thoroughly illustrated general assessment of an...

John Rothenstein's Introduction To English Painting has long been recognised as one of the best concise guides to the development of English painting. In this book he combines the authority of his scholarship with rare, discerning enthusiasm (and not a...

"The Spirit of Britain" is a masterly survey of the country s artsliterature, music, poetry, painting, architecture, theater, and all the related subjects that, over the centuries, have given British intellectual and cultural life its unique...

This study of colonialism and art examines the intersection of visual culture and political power in late-eighteenth-century British painting. Focusing on paintings from British America, the West Indies, and India, Beth Fowkes Tobin investigates the role...