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This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previous thought. Instead of beginning in the early 17th ...

The seventeenth-century painting The Paston Treasure (ca. 1663) is an enigmatic masterpiece. It will make its North American debut at the Yale Center for British Art in an exhibition organized ...

This updated guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum charts new pathways through the beloved institutions superb collection. Gardner, a trail-blazing American who was among the most prominent patrons of ...

Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in ...

Despite spending sixty years of her life in France, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) is considered to be the greatest American artist of her time. This book accompanies an exhibition of her ...

In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications about his ...

Landscape is probably the most popular type of painting, but anyone who has ever been disappointed by vacation photographs knows how difficult it is to turn a view into a ...

Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and 30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for ...

Crusade and Jihad is the first book to encompass, in one volume, the entire history of the catastrophic encounter between the Global North'China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America'and Muslim societies ...

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the ...

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with ...

In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material ...

This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525), an artist from Estonia who trained in the tradition of early Netherlandish painting. Sittow worked for ...

American architect Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was internationally known in the 1950s and early 1960s for his powerful, large-scale concrete buildings. Hugely influential during his lifetime, Rudolph was one of the ...

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how ...

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is widely regarded as the greatest American painter of the 19th century, but it is not well known that he spent a pivotal period of time on ...

Active from the late 18th through the early 20th century, the Peale family was Americas first artistic dynasty. This overview of the art of the Peales documents and interprets more ...

The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as ...

Frederic Church (1826-1900), one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration for his highly detailed compositions. ...

William Ivey Long (b. 1947) is a leading costume designer for the stage, film, and television, whose creativity, artistry, and craftsmanship have earned him ovations throughout the theater community and ...