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 →At the close of the 16th century, Europe’s most talented painters flocked to Rome, the Eternal City, to execute commissions for popes, princes, ...
Continue Reading →Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them ...
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 →Although it is often assumed that British writing on architectural theory really started in the 18th century, there is in fact a large ...
Continue Reading →In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and ...
Continue Reading →Draws on contemporary biographies and a wealth of hitherto unpublished archival material to illuminate the position and practice of the Baroque sculptor, to ...
Continue Reading →Few art historians would dispute that Jennifer Montagu is one of the most distinguished scholars of Italian (mostly Roman) Baroque sculpture. Besides her ...
Continue Reading →In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the “propagandistic” art and architecture of the Jesuit ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1951, Arnold Hausers work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone ...
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