Konsthistoria / konst- & designstilar ca 1600 – ca 1800

Den här boken är en lättillgänglig och praktisk introduktion till ett brett urval av bildkonstens "ismer". Den redovisar, förklarar och ger exempel på de mest betydande riktningarna som format konstens historia från ismerna under renässansen fram ti…

A new edition of this biography, originally published by ChattoWindus, in which Langdon uncovers Caravaggio's progress from childhood in plague-ridden Milan to wild success in Rome, and eventual exile and persecution in the South, and sets his work…

Vecket är ett både historiskt och spekulativt försök att sätta Leibniz filosofi i förbindelse med en ?barock? estetik. Gilles Deleuze spårar begreppet veck ? le pli ? på alla områden i Leibniz tänkande. Därmed blir vecket ett operationellt drag som…

This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues…

Kungliga Slottets inredningshistoria under frihetstiden har till en del ägnats ingående studier, till en del knappast alls. Det som saknat belysning är framför allt den lösa inredningen. Här presenteras nu slottsbyggnadens fasta och lösa inredning i…

Bilden av det svenska 1700-talets byggnader och inredningar formades på ett målmedvetet sätt under 1900-talets första årtionden. Många av de fragmentariska miljöer som fanns vid seklets början rekonstruerades metodiskt, inte minst med de kulturhisto…

Under frihetstiden genomgick privatbostaden en revolutionerande förändring. I de förnämsta rummen utsmyckades väggar och tak med dekorativa målningar som omfattar en rik flora av motiv. I denna avhandling får vi en systematisk genomgång av bostadsmi…

Art in Theory (1648--1815) provides a wide--ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its highly successful companion volumes, Art in The…

Efter Gustav III:s tronbestigning inleddes ett nytt skede i Sveriges kulturella och politiska historia. Kungens intresse för de olika konstarterna bidrog till en märklig konstnärlig blomstring. På arkitekturen, trädgårdskonsten och inredningarna öva…

The Dutch Golden Age Book is a new, compact and multifaceted survey of painting in the Dutch Golden Age. The book showcases more than 350 colour reproductions and gives an outstanding picture of the exceptional and prolific production of paintings c…

Under 1600-talet internationaliserades den svenska konsten i alla avseenden. Konsten skulle lära betraktaren att söka sanningen, att se bortom eller bakom tingen. Allt var något mer än det syntes vara, och därmed blev allegorin, gåtan, så viktig. Al…

William Blake (1757-1827) became one of the greatest English poets and artists. This book takes a look at the highlights of his career as both artist and poet, with beautiful colour illustrations of forty-five of his most striking and unusual works.…

Tanken bakom titeln är att via uppsatser som "Schene Rariteten" med dess kusliga inblickar i den tidigare okända svenska antisemitismen under 1840-1860-talen påvisa hur det i historiens mörkrum kan framkallas bevis som ingen trodde fanns. De flesta…

This book examines the culture of excess in all its 20th-century manifestations. Fashion, film, photography, design and decoration: all feature in Stephen Calloway's sweep through the colourful, the opulent and the theatrical. The author examines th…

Caravaggio - A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and force…

Barocken ingår i en serie konstguider som lyfter fram de viktigaste verken från olika konstepoker. Några av barockens mest tongivande konstnärer var Bernini, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velázques och Vermeer. Format: 195 x 240 (Ryggbredd 32 mm) Fler titl…

Här beskrivs den klassicistiska interiörens detaljer i dörrar, fönster och väggpaneler och illustreras med över 600 fotografier och kompletterade av detaljritningar i naturlig storlek. Första gången finns ett samlat material från såväl interiörarkit…

Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a perspective on the period.

The divine sky. History's most beautiful celestial atlas. This collection of celestial maps by Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 - 1665) brings back to life a masterpiece from the Golden Age of celestial cartogra…

A major study of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian art.

This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple. * Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art; artistic practices and prod…

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his the…

This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! This title deals with Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreams. The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as o…

This lively portrait of the artist and his environment helps readers become acquainted with the life and times of Jan Vermeer. With only 37 known works, Vermeer's oeuvre affords readers an opportunity to become intimately acquainted with his paintin…

I boken behandlas huvudbaner och anvapen i Sverige 1650?1730, skulpturer som är specifika för stormaktstidens Sverige. Dessa snidade arbeten är tillverkade i ett rikt bildhuggeriarbete som utförts av både hovbildhuggare, amiralitetsbildhuggare och p…

French Neoclassical painter, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was one of the 19th century's major portrait and historical painters. First trained in drawing by Europe's most famous classicist painter, Jacques-Louis David, Ingres went to Rom…

Fashion ruled the courts of the "Sun King," Louis XIV (1638-1715), and his successor, Louis XV (1710-1774). The Sun King forced the courtiers of Versailles to adopt his grand Baroque styles. A lighter fashion sense prevailed at the court of Louis XV…

1800-talet är de stora utställningarnas tid i Europa. I Sverige är det framför allt 1897 års utställning som gett eko, men författaren visar också på de mindre kända föregångarna. Det är den unga svenska industrialismens arkitektur som tar form och…

This collection brings together studies on the French decorative arts in the eighteenth century, extending from bookbinding, typography and engraving to those related specifically to the domestic interior: porcelain, upholstery and furniture. * A co…

Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work and this is a catalogue raisonne of his painted oeuvre. A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also l…

As period, as style, as sensibility, the Baroque remains elusive, its definition subject to dispute. Perhaps this is so in part because baroque vision resists separation of mind and body, form and matter, line and color, image and discourse. In "Quo…

This book begins with a single premise: that Vermeer painted images not only of extraordinary beauty, but of extraordinary strangeness. To understand that strangeness, Bryan Jay Wolf turns to the history of early modernism and to ways of seeing that…

This edition reproduces all Stubbs' etchings and is taken from the 1853 printing, the last to use Stubbs' original plates. Including a full text of Stubbs' commentary. George Stubbs (1724-1806) was one of the most original artists Britain has produc…

Tre generationer av makalös kreativitet Historien om den berömda familjen Tessin - Nicodemus den äldre, Nicodemus den yngre och Carl Gustaf - är unik. Tre generationer, farfar, far och son, kom att få en avgörande betydelse för svensk arkitektur, ko…

This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori. Originally conceived as a con…

Georges de La Tour ranks with Vermeer and the Le Nain brothers among those seventeenth-century painters whose unmistakable talent is matched only by the aura of mystery that surrounds the artists themselves. Jacques Thuillier's groundbreaking monogr…

Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the American Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester in 1776 to avoid persecution, t…

Gjörwell var Stockholms stadsarkitekt under drygt tre årtionden, men hade även uppdrag i Sverige och Finland. Ursula Sjöberg lyfter i sin doktorsavhandling fram ett stort, delvis opublicerat material av ritningar, färgsättningsskisser och äldre foto…

The years between 1520 and 1630 in Italy are among the most crucial periods in the history of architecture, but it is a story that has never been fully told. Conventionally, the classic age of the High Renaissance ends with Michelangelo; Baroque beg…

Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life a…

This is a breathtaking and superbly designed volume on the influential Baroque and Rococo art movements. It is magnificently illustrated, with fascinating expert analysis. It is a beautiful gift-book. An era of exuberant creativity is the focus of t…

Over 300 works -- portraits, landscapes, biblical scenes, allegorical and mythological pictures and more -- reproduced in full size directly from a rare collection of etchings famed for its pristine condition; fresh, clean impressions; rich contrast…

We take enormous comfort in the notion that art began in ancient Greece, or maybe even the Renaissance, and that its progress can be traced through a long series of masterpieces. We believe even more firmly in the idea that art is transcendent and u…

"Baroque New Worlds" traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a p…

"Baroque New Worlds" traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a p…

Presents over 60 masterpieces of American paintings from the Brooklyn Museum, all of which are shown in color and with informative captions discussing the key features of each, showing the quality and scope of this important collection