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The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the ...

David Oppenheim (1664-1736), chief rabbi of Prague in the early eighteenth century, built an unparalleled collection of Jewish books and manuscripts, all of which have survived and are housed in ...

Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of ...

In 1842, the pioneering French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) set out eastward across the Mediterranean. He spent the next three years documenting lands that were then largely unknown ...

The first major retrospective of the Brazilian modernist architect's life and work One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and ...

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity's changing relationship with nature and the city Today, cities around the globe are planting street ...

Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. OHara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of 'futuremaking.' While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin ...

This richly illustrated publication explores the full career of the hugely influential and endlessly fascinating French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). A pioneer whose creative output was predicated on a fundamental ...

Frank Lloyd Wrights lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Fields famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of ...

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887-1965), is famous for transforming 20th-century architecture and urbanism. Less attention has been paid to his artistic production, although he began his career as ...

This sumptuous presentation of the Philadelphia Museum of Arts wide-ranging collection of Chinese art features one hundred works in various media spanning antiquity to the present day'including Ming gold vessels, ...

One of the most emulated and significant figures in modern art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) rose to fame in the 1960s with his iconic Pop pieces. Warhol expanded the boundaries by ...

A cross-cultural examination of jewelry spanning 5,000 years that investigates not only the objects themselves but also the bodies they decorated As an art form, jewelry is defined primarily through ...

The definitive six-volume catalogue raisonné of the drawings of one of the most important artists working today Six decades of both iconic and intimate works by Jasper Johns (b. 1930), ...

Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues ...

This stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993), one of Mexicos foremost photographers. Álvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator ...

During the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, from the late 1800s until World War I, American ceramics were transformed from industrially produced ...

This landmark exhibition in the Museum's American Wing showcases 116 masterworks representing the achievements of artists from more than fifty cultures across North America. Ranging in date from the second ...

This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury ...

The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artists pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor ...