In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by ...
Continue Reading →Described by Kenneth Clark as ‘one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever read’, Art and Illusion is ...
Continue Reading →A new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of ...
Continue Reading →An imaginary thread winds through the hills of Siena and its countryside. A guiding thread connecting the art of the fifteenth century with ...
Continue Reading →Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of drawings by the little-known Academy of Linceans, a seventeenth-century Italian group that took as ...
Continue Reading →Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label “sociology of art,” it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. ...
Continue Reading →This magisterial study of Gothic architecture traces the meaning and development of the Gothic style through medieval churches across Europe. Ranging geographically from ...
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