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The basis for our understanding of Leonardos theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present ...

This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption that the home was a central space of religious practice and experience throughout ...

Celebrating Suprematism throws vital new light on Kazimir Malevichs abstract style and the philosophical, scientific, aesthetic, and ideological context within which it emerged and developed. The essays in the collection, ...

Recent interest in the economic aspects of the history of art have taken traditional studies into new areas of enquiry. Going well beyond provenances or prices of individual objects, our ...

A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance edited by Hilaire Kallendorf makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, 'A Renaissance for the ...

The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the familys reign, first as Dukes ...

A Companion to Medieval Toledo. Reconsidering the Canons explores the limits of 'Convivencia' through new and problematized readings of material familiar to specialists and offers a thoughtful initiation for the ...

An astonishing number of medieval garments survive, more-or-less complete. Here the authors present 100 items, ranging from homely to princely. The books wide-ranging introduction discusses the circumstances in which garments ...

In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in Eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His ...

Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture examines the lotteries as devices for distributing images and art objects, and constructing their value in the former Low Countries. Alongside the fairs and ...

Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas is a trans-cultural collection of studies on visual treatments of the phenomena of suffering and pain ...

This book examines the dress and personal appearance of members of the middle and lower classes in the eastern Mediterranean region during the 4th to 8th centuries. Written, art historical ...

Frans Floris de Vriendt radically transformed Netherlandish art. His monumental mythologies introduced a new appreciation for the heroic nude to the Low Countries and his religious art challenged standards of ...

Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art restores attention to the aesthetic, intellectual, and economic link between two key periods in the history of art: the Golden Age of ...

In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread ...

Ethan Matt Kavaler Sixteenth- . A recovery Yao-Fen You 'infinite variety carved altarpieces Aleksandra Lipinska Between contestation and re-invention. altarpiece in turbulent times (c. 1530-1600) Ruben Suykerbuyk & Anne-Laure Van ...

This is the first study in any language to trace the emergence of the art historical interest in icon painting in the nineteenth century with its evident impact on the ...

The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, ...

Essouk-Tadmekka presents the first archaeological exploration of one of the most important market towns on the trans-Saharan camel-caravan routes in the early Islamic period, supplying West African gold, slaves, and ...

In Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways ...