The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1984, The Clothing of Clio is concerned with the wide variety of ways in which the past was represented in ...
Continue Reading →Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively ...
Continue Reading →Philibert de l’Orme was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of the French Renaissance. In the 17th century, ...
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 →Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, ...
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 →‘Sublime’ and ‘Milton’ – no other pairing is used more frequently in early discussions of the author of Paradise Lost: Addison finds Milton’s ...
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 →This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle’s Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, ...
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