Art History category: 15294 books
François Blondel
Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today.
Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated...
Universe of Stone
Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in...
by Narim Bender
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788) was an English portrait and landscape artist, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. He was the most inventive and original, always prepared to experiment with new ideas and techniques. Gainsborough alone among the great portrait painters of the era...
Greek Homosexuality
with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual...
Montsalvat
The intimate story of an Australian artists' colony
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the round table Montsalvat is the home of the Holy Grail. Australia's Montsalvat is an artists' colony in Eltham, established by the architect and artist Justus Jorgensen in 1934. It is home to over a dozen buildings, houses and halls built out of local...
The Horses of St. Mark's
A Story of Triumph in Byzantium, Paris, and Venice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the mysterious origin of the statues and their turbulent movements through Europe over the centuries: in Constantinople, at both its founding and sacking in the Fourth Crusade; in Venice, at both the height of...
From Aryana-Khorasan to Afghanistan
Afghanistan History in 25 Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
au photo Volume 24 consists of an outline of the 25 volumes encyclopedia included is the American dream of tapping into markets in Afghanistan-Central Asia A.D 1338 Afghan-Turkmen Ottoman Empire & A.D 1361 Afghan-Tajik Empires Turkmen Emperor all over Islamic Nation & Tajik Empire Central-Asia-India...
by Leslie Ellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
During the Scottish Enlightenment the relationship between aesthetics and ethics became deeply ingrained: beauty was the sensible manifestation of virtue; the fine arts represented the actions of a virtuous mind; to deeply understand artful and natural beauty was to identify with moral beauty; and...
by Éva Forgács
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Art historian Éva Forgács's book is an unusual take on the Bauhaus. She examines the school as shaped by the great forces of history as well as the personal dynamism of its faculty and students. The book focuses on the idea of the Bauhaus - the notion that the artist should be involved in the technological...
by Paul Tapsell
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Exploring the legacy of Pukaki, the ancestral father of Ngati Whakaue, a hapu (sub-tribe) of Te Arawa of Rotorua, this text also relates the history of the carving of Pukaki that featured in the Te Maori exhibition, its origins, how it was acquired by the Crown and how Ngati Whakaue regained it from the Auckland Museum in 1997.
Battlelines: Gettysburg, Day 1
Civil War Combat Artists and the Pictures They Drew, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
What did the battle of Gettysburg look like?
Despite the vast number of photographs associated with the Civil War, we have no photos of the battles themselves. The state of photography at that time could not stop action as it does today.
But we DO have pictures.
They are the drawings...
Studio Jackson
Creative Culture in the Mississippi Capital
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In the capital city of Jackson, visual artists and craftsmen have historically found a place where their work is cherished as part of the local economy. The works span nearly all mediums from sculpting to painting. Beginning in the 1920s with the formation of Wolfe Studios and spanning decades of change...
by Joan Marans Dim, Antonio Masi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi teams up with writer and New York City historian
Joan Marans Dim to offer a multidimensional exploration of New York City’s nine major bridges, their artistic and
cultural underpinnings, and their impact worldwide.
The tale of New...
by Anthony F. D'Elia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony D’Elia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism.