Konsthistoria / konst- & designstilar ca 1600 – ca 1800

Gian Lorenzo Berninis Werke, die nach 1665 in Paris und Rom entstanden, sind der Gegenstand dieses Buches. Eingehende Untersuchungen der Kunstwerke sowie des Quellen- und …

The northern Italian artist Giacomo Ceruti (1698–1767) was born in Milan and active in Brescia and Bergamo. For his distinctive, large-scale paintings of low income tradespeople …

As famous during his lifetime as after his death, Rembrandt (1606-1669) was one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. His portraits not only …

This volume features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and …

This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications.

This wide-ranging study traces the forces that drove the production and interpretation of visual images of Shakespeare's plays. Covering a rich chronological terrain, from the …

This is as the favoured artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersection between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. …

The five Diez albums in Berlin, acquired by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in Constantinople around 1789, contain more than 400 figurative paintings, drawings, fragments, and …

Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel …

This beautifully designed and illustrated publication is the first comprehensive biography of the portrait painter Johan Zoffany (1733?1810), one of the leading figures of …