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Konsthistoria / konst- & designstilar ca 1600 – ca 1800
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Im Diskurs um "figura" kristallisieren sich in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit vielzählig facettenreiche Vorstellungen von der Medialität bildlicher Figurenevidenz, die sich …
The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace …
Claude III Audran, Arbiter of the French Arabesque is the first substantial biographical study of Claude III Audran, a late 17th- and early 18th-century master of ornament and a …
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, …
Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, cast off the rigid clothing …
The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious women’s communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and image-bearing jewelry created in …
Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of the first women artists of Europe to establish an international …
A focus on Caravaggio’s last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, telling the story of an empowered female saint In early May 1610, Caravaggio finished painting The Martyrdom of …
The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk …