Baroque & Rococo

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503536217Author Andres Ubeda de Los CobosFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 6250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503516202Author Dries LynaFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503507989Author VAN VAECKImprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 787g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789993272496Author Keith SciberrasFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Midsea Books Ltd,MaltaPublisher Midsea Books Ltd,Malta

Americans have long had a taste for the art and culture of Holland's Golden Age. As a result, the United States can boast extraordinary holdings of Dutch paintings. Celebrated masters such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Frans Hals are...

The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. Here was a man whose astonishing gifts were allied to a personality so cosmopolitan, engaging, and virtuous that he could mingle as easily with kings as...

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'- The GuardianEdmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works...

The eighteenth century was a golden age of public building. Governments constructed theaters, museums, hospices, asylums, and marketplaces to forge a new type of city, one that is recognizably modern. Yet the dawn of this urban development remains...

The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their monastery, the Certosa di San Martino, into a jewel of marble revetment, painting, and sculpture. The...

The commemorative tradition in early American art is given sustained consideration for the first time in Sally Webster's study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a...

As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio's art are multiple and variable. Art historians from the UK and North America offer new or recently updated interpretations of the works of seventeenth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024989Author Ernst KrisFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &...

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art...

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'- The Guardian Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important...

This is a unique volume that explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century...

The profession of sculpture was transformed during the eighteenth century as the creation and appreciation of art became increasingly associated with social interaction. Central to this transformation was the esteemed yet controversial body, the Academie...

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University...

In 1752 Charles-Joseph Natoire, then a highly successful painter, assumed the directorship of the prestigious Academie de France in Rome. Twenty-three years later he was removed from office, criticised as being singularly inept. What was the basis for...

Italian Baroque painting is often discussed in terms of theatre and the creation of powerful visual spectacle through the dramatic use of light. Seventeenth-century painters pushed the limits of artistic expression to reshape the relationship between the...

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collection is the foundation of Scotland's oldest public museum, The Hunterian, until now there has been no...

Examining the literary career of the eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry, 1741-1806 through an interdisciplinary methodology, The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting, 1775-1809 is the first full-length study of the artist's...

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons manipulated these images in connection with the religious literature of the time to...

Intermittently in and out of fashion, the persistence of the Rococo from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first is clear. From painting, print and photography, to furniture, fashion and film, the Rococo’s diverse manifestations appear to defy...

Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) was an Austrian fresco painter known for his bold use of color. Although he has been recognized in the Central European regions where he worked, Maulbertsch has remained outside the general canon of art history. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503525648Author Katlijne Van Der StighelenFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1202g

Out of public sight for over a hundred years, the Livre de caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises is a remarkable work. This collection of comic and satirical drawings was created by a Parisian luxury embroiderer, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, at a time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909400399Author Caroline FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789381658Author Elise TakehanaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint IntellectPublisher Intellect

Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ‘over the top’ and ‘excessive’. Their material richness and exciting visual complexity, together with the visceral engagement they demand from beholders, are usually explained in literature as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646995240Author Klaus CarlFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 216g

How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers in Western Europe, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789059973077Author Gary SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Primavera PersPublisher Primavera Pers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580442718Author Lisa BeavenFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Medieval Institute PublicationsPublisher Medieval Institute Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791254630563Author Guido ReniFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint MarsilioPublisher MarsilioWeight(grams) 431g

The commemorative tradition in early American art is given sustained consideration for the first time in Sally Webster's study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791254630464Author Guido ReniFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Marsilio EditoriPublisher Marsilio EditoriWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683259152Author Klaus H. CarlFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldan (1652-1706), a prolific and celebrated sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age. The daughter of Pedro Roldan, a well-known sculptor from...

During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed worldwide. Focusing on shells and pearls exchanged within local and global networks, this monograph compares...