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This study is the first to examine the relationship between art and violence in 15th-century Florence, exposing the underbelly of a period more often celebrated for enlightened and progressive ideas. ...

The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis ...

Evocative and often highly erotic works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso are presented along with new details about Scofield Thayer (1889-1982), the unusual and complicated ...

This groundbreaking study focuses on John Singer Sargents sustained, yet largely overlooked, involvement with Chicagos vibrant Gilded Age culture. Documenting the artists personal connections to the city and the prominence ...

Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all colors inescapability, we dont know ...

Since antiquity, religious beliefs and practices have inspired many of the masterworks of art. These works of art have, in turn, fueled the imagination of fashion designers in the 20th ...

Celebrated for his landscapes that occupy a place between the figurative and the abstract, Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955) was a Russian-born French artist whose works encompass paintings, collage, illustrations, and ...

Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and illuminates the history of art in Britain over the ...

Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning ...

For patricians in the Republic of Venice, paintings in manuscripts marking their appointment to high office expressed a tension between selfless service and individual ambition. Originally of value solely in ...

This richly illustrated history of diamonds illuminates myriad facets of the 'king of gems,' including a cast of larger-than-life characters such as Alexander the Great, the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and ...

Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871), painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic ...

Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1500-1543), one of Raphaels most influential and distinctive followers, has not been well treated by time. His significant early frescoes, which graced exterior palace facades in ...

Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been ...

Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful ...

With an emphasis on painting and sculpture made in the United States between 1910 and 1950, this gorgeously illustrated volume offers a rich introduction to American modernism through the world-class ...

The term 'macaroni' was once as familiar a label as 'punk' or 'hipster' is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and ...

The spectacular transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the eras great Impressionist artists. The ...

An insightful study of Joseph Cornell's fascination with the Cubist painter Juan Gris, shedding new light on the work of both artists Joseph Cornell first viewed Cubist painter Juan Griss ...