A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans; the high ...
Continue Reading →No publication-date appears on the title page, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that the book was published in 1842 (although ...
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 →Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert—these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases ...
Continue Reading →Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of ...
Continue Reading →This book will have at least one feature in common with all those already published on Mannerism; it will appear to describe something ...
Continue Reading →Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired ...
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