This study in intellectual history places the art historical concept of the Baroque amidst world events, political thought, and the political views of ...
Continue Reading →Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely ...
Continue Reading →Giorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that ...
Continue Reading →Giovanni Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Although best known today for his art criticism and biographies ...
Continue Reading →This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: ...
Continue Reading →In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, ...
Continue Reading →Style is one of the oldest and most powerful analytic tools available to art writers. Despite the importance of style as an artistic, ...
Continue Reading →A fascinating exploration of art from the Renaissance to modern times by one of America’s most distinguished art historians. Focusing on specific masterpieces ...
Continue Reading →Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history ...
Continue Reading →Throughout history and around the world, people have interacted with works of art as if they were living beings rather than static objects. ...
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