Art History category: 15294 books
Critical Voices
Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensive original research in order to demonstrate the significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws on a diversity of sources, including...
The Renaissance of Imagination
The Marriage of Heaven and Earth in Florentine Renaissance Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
As you make your way through "The Renaissance of Imagination", you'll have the opportunity to explore works by artists from Donatello to Botticelli that span Florence's greatest century of art. But you won't find the usual discussions about the dating of particular works, or why a certain painting...
Spirit Winds of Peace
The Epoch of the Peace Makers
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Let Marcine take you on a journey into the distant past through her paintings. An accomplished artist, she brings to life the ancient tales of the peoples who call themselves the Haudenosaunee, People of the Longhouse. We know them better as the Iroquois League of Nations.
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The Art of the Sister Chapel
Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The Sister Chapel (1974-78) was an important collaborative installation that materialized at the height of the women‘s art movement. Conceived as a nonhierarchical, secular commemoration of female role models, The Sister Chapel consisted of an eighteen-foot abstract ceiling that hung above a circular...
Percorsi di salvezza e strumenti di legittimazione - Paths of Salvation and Instruments of Legitimation
I cicli dei Sette Sacramenti nell’arte del Medioevo - Cycles of the Seven Sacraments in Medieval Art
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2017
L’apparizione delle prime serie iconografiche dei Sette Sacramenti nell’arte monumentale italiana del Trecento rappresenta un episodio significativo, ma finora poco indagato, della grande vitalità artistica dei secoli del Basso Medioevo. In diversi contesti e con diverse finalità, i committenti...
by Ernest Arthur Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Ernest Arthur Gardner was an English archaeologist who served as the director of the British School at Athens in the late 19th century. Gardner was especially interested in Ancient Greece and wrote many books on it. Gardner's best-known work is Religion and Art in Ancient Greece. A table of contents is included.
Humanizing Visual Design
The Rhetoric of Human Forms in Practical Communication
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, inviting, and meaningful to readers—in short, "humanizing" it.
Although human figures have long been deployed in practical communication,...
The Collector
The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world
Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities...
by Troy Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, would lay the foundations for modern painting. His paintings defied tradition to such...
Wisconsin in Watercolor
The Life and Legend of Folk Artist Paul Seifert
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In 1867, German immigrant Paul Seifert settled in the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin and began capturing the distinctive farms and landscapes of his new home in vivid, detailed watercolors. Today, these paintings are coveted by American folk art collectors across the country, but Seifert’s...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Renaissance was a time of beautiful transformations - from art to science and everything else in between. Learn about the events that marked the beginning of the Renaissance. The great thing about this history book is that it has been rewritten to be age appropriate. It also comes with images for the eyes to feast on. Secure a copy of this book today!
Historical Comedy On Screen
Subverting History with Humour
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In 1893, Friedrich Engels branded history 'the cruelest goddess of all.' This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are few places this is more...
The Elgin Affair
The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book chronicling the nineteenth-century scandal of the Elgin Marbles, their removal from the Parthenon, and Lord Elgin’s harrowing fate.
As the Napoleonic Wars raged in the first years of the nineteenth-century, Scottish diplomat Lord Elgin committed one of the most...
The Cezanne Chase
An Inspector Jack Oxby Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Scotland Yard's art crime detective Jack Oxby is back in The Cezanne Chase, the second book of Thomas Swan's critically acclaimed suspense series. This time, Inspector Oxby is pitted against a ruthless killer determined to destroy some of the world's most valuable art—and anyone who gets in his...