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Konsthistoria / konst- & designstilar ca 1600 – ca 1800
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Artists are makers of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This …
Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth …
Celebrating masterpieces of Spanish art in US collections, each book in this exciting new series focuses on a single work of art on the occasion of its exhibition at the Meadows …
This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideologically driven …
"This is the very best of Antwerp and the best from here in Oxford." — The Oxford Times Weekend "This entertaining exhibition of the 16th- and 17th-century drawings from the Low …
This volume offers the first critical account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain, and lacquers, along with newly published descriptions of the Chinese …
When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses …
The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, …