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From celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and courtiers, to works depicting an aspiring 'middle class, Strong presents a detailed and authoritative examination of one of the ...

In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably ...

Painted in 1468, Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil is the first documented work by Bartolomé Bermejo (c. 1440-c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings ...

Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women ...

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia OKeeffes husband. This new book from ...

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, the 20 essays written for this volume explore topics ranging from the influence of Hellenistic art in the ancient Roman world to the ongoing excavations ...

This crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossis (1931-1997) architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings, and product design, including the coffeepots and clocks he designed for the Italian firm Alessi. The first ...

This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained remarkably ...

In the later years of his life, Claude Monet (1840-1926) stayed close to home, turning to his extraordinary garden at Giverny for inspiration. The garden became a laboratory for the ...

A central feature of Japanese culture for many centuries, the veneration of kami deities'a practice often referred to as Shinto'has been a driving force behind a broad swath of visual ...

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a ...

This authoritative book surveys the remarkable collection of 18th-century French paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the context of the institutions that governed the visual arts in the ...

The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth centurys growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs ...

Emerging as an urgent response to the destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq, Syria, and Iran, this publication examines the art and architecture of regions that served as major trade ...

An unprecedented study that reveals tapestrys role as a modernist medium and a model for the movements discourse on both sides of the Atlantic in the decades following World War ...

'My husband Jan finished me on 17 June 1439. . . . My age was 33 years.' So speaks Margaret van Eyck from the frame of her portrait. This painted ...

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture ...

Scholars and enthusiasts alike will revel in this ambitious two-volume catalogue raisonné of Thomas Gainsboroughs portraits and copies of Old Master works. The catalogue contains approximately 1,100 paintings, including nearly ...

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 ...