Gianlorenzo Bernini is beyond question one of the greatest artists of all time. World-famous above all for his uniquely powerful works of sculpture, ...
Continue Reading →Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (13 September 1564 – 27 December 1637) was an aristocratic Italian banker, art collector and intellectual of the late 16th ...
Continue Reading →Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced ...
Continue Reading →All plates in “Etchings Representing The Best Examples Of Ancient Ornamental Architecture Drawn From The Originals In Rome And Other Parts Of Italy ...
Continue Reading →Combining the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a unique ...
Continue Reading →This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by ...
Continue Reading →The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
Continue Reading →This book is the first in English devoted to Francois Duquesnoy, a central figure in seventeenth-century European sculpture, a rival to Bernini, and ...
Continue Reading →One of the greatest architectural artists of all time, and certainly the most famous copper engraver of the 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi ...
Continue Reading →“There may not be any book on architecture so delightful to dip into; one wishes there were a pocket edition to take on ...
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