(Pub. Date: 07-Jun-2017, Hardback, Publisher: Ammonite Press, ISBN-13: 9781781453025)
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the worlds greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all o...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781917273138)
New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by Frick chief curator Aimee Ng paired with a contribution by fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.Innumerable pearls line the blue satin dress of the Honorable Frances...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300284423)
An unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy that considers the ecological and artistic forces that made the genre transformative In 1530 the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (...More info...
The first English translation of Heinrich Brauer and Rudolf Wittkower’s famous catalog of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Architectural Drawings from 1931. Published in 1931, Brauer and Wittkower’s catalog of Bernini’s drawings remains among th...More info...
(Pub. Date: 24-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282702)
How visual fantasies of violence, animality, and political agency offered an alternative image of masculinity during the Enlightenment Centering on animal bodies and assertive masculinity, the visual strategies of hunting art may appear incongruen...More info...
(Pub. Date: 19-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009664134)
Exploring the social roles of images in late sixteenth-century Italy, this book demonstrates that the pressures of Catholic reform increased, rather than limited, the authority of the image. It follows the reformer Carlo Borromeo (d. 1584) into a wo...More info...
Through the study of Bartolomé Esteban Murillos painting, this book reveals unknown and intriguing aspects of early globalization and the history of Golden Age Spain....More info...
(Pub. Date: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781913875732)
This new volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with images of a new work created for the occasion by Flora Yukhnovich, along with a short text...More info...
(Pub. Date: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN-13: 9780847876235)
This publication explores the rich intersections of portraiture and fashion in the art of the English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), one of the most sought-after society portraitists of his age and a continued inspiration today....More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526195548)
This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period. Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the b...More info...
A Caravaggio first, this accessible and attractive illustrated volume focuses on one of the famous artists most iconic artworks, Victorious Cupid...More info...
First monograph and in-depth study on the subject of lepidochromy Interdisciplinarity (art history, history of natural history, art conservation) Originality of the methods (first-hand experiences, traditional art historical methods) The Dutch painte...More info...
(Pub. Date: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781917273121)
These two cabinets, stamped BVRB, may well be the last pieces of furniture made by the celebrated Parisian cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh II just before he retired in 1764 and sold his workshop to his son, Bernard van Risenburgh III, who finish...More info...
• A long publication dedicated to a city rich in history, art and culture • Featuring many previously unseen pictures of private palaces Palermo • Includes a great selection of literary extracts Palermo has been given a host o...More info...
Across eight cases studies of patrons spanning the 18th to the 21st century, this assesses the ways that Louis XIVs Palace of Versailles has continued to shape the aesthetics of cultural capital since his death. The book demonstrates how the extrav...More info...
A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present....More info...
The first monograph on the artist to be published in English, this book provides a long-overdue introduction to the life and work of Portuguese painter Josefa de Ayala, known as Josefa de Óbidos (1630-1684). One of the best known and most celebrated...More info...
In 1679, the commentator Joachim von Sandrart described Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) as a painter who had perfected the art of the miniature and of flower painting, a high and deserved honour. Posthumously, however, it is Merians status as an en...More info...
(Pub. Date: 29-Jul-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691201016)
A fascinating account of the use and meaning of visual and spatial distortions in seventeenth-century art and architectureDuring the Catholic Reformation, patrons, artists, architects, and viewers, especially in Rome, were strongly...More info...
(Pub. Date: 07-Apr-2025, Hardback, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226835495)
Neer uncovers a key moment in the history of early modern art, when painting was understood to be a tool for self-transformation and for living a philosophical life. In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer shows how French painters...More info...
Featuring newly attributed paintings, this book is an engaging exploration of Clara Peeters’s contributions to the genre of still-life painting. Clara Peeters (ca. 1587–1636)—a Flemish still-life painter—was one of the most talented an...More info...
Clara Peeters was one of the most talented and creative among the early practitioners of still-life painting in Europe. This timely book sheds light on the limitations she encountered because of her gender and how she responded to them in her art, w...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-Mar-2025, Hardback, Publisher: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781913875527)
This fifteenth volume in the Frick Diptych series focuses on The Forge by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. An essay by The Frick Collections Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon is paired with a text by Pulitzer Prize...More info...
This monograph is the first to detail the captivating life and oeuvre of the Dutch artist Gesina ter Borch. Illustrations. This absorbing monograph is the first to detail the captivating life and oeuvre of the Dutch artist Gesina ter Borch....More info...
This book is a fresh, archivally nourished study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eighteenth-century France. It focuses on moments of intense collaboration between artists, actors and writers, and on the ways in...More info...
Rembrandt was revered as a genius during his lifetime and has fascinated generations of artists and connoisseurs ever since. Rembrandts trademark – rough, impasto brushwork, his unique lighting and sensitivity – pointed the way forward, not only...More info...
Poussins Confirmation is the first volume in a major new series commissioned by the Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi, presenting individual masterpieces acquired and now resident in the Emirate....More info...
An illustrated study of the grand baroque staircase at Paleis Het Loo, from its 17th-century creation to its 20th-century royal restoration. Accompanies the The Grand Staircase: if walls could talk exhibition at Paleis Het Loo, Netherlands from 1...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271100418)
For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later Mexico City, but their responses were about more than just engineering. What might seem like straightforward hydraulic projects emerge, u...More info...
(Pub. Date: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781917273138)
New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by Frick chief curator Aimee Ng paired with a contribution by fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.Innumerable pearls line the blue satin dress of the Honorable Frances...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300284423)
An unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy that considers the ecological and artistic forces that made the genre transformative In 1530 the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (...More info...
(Pub. Date: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Publisher: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781913875770)
This lavishly illustrated book tells the intriguing story of the search for, and discovery of, wonderful, rare gilt-silver religious vessels thought lost for centuries....More info...
The first English translation of Heinrich Brauer and Rudolf Wittkower’s famous catalog of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Architectural Drawings from 1931. Published in 1931, Brauer and Wittkower’s catalog of Bernini’s drawings remains among th...More info...
As chosen by British landscapists traveling on the Grand Tour in the last third of the eighteenth century, our study explores the path to remedy the ambiguity of their pictorial genre. Indeed, being attached to certain continental artistic references...More info...
(Pub. Date: 24-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282702)
How visual fantasies of violence, animality, and political agency offered an alternative image of masculinity during the Enlightenment Centering on animal bodies and assertive masculinity, the visual strategies of hunting art may appear incongruen...More info...
(Pub. Date: 19-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009664134)
Exploring the social roles of images in late sixteenth-century Italy, this book demonstrates that the pressures of Catholic reform increased, rather than limited, the authority of the image. It follows the reformer Carlo Borromeo (d. 1584) into a wo...More info...
Through the study of Bartolomé Esteban Murillos painting, this book reveals unknown and intriguing aspects of early globalization and the history of Golden Age Spain....More info...
(Pub. Date: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: D Giles Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781913875732)
This new volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with images of a new work created for the occasion by Flora Yukhnovich, along with a short text...More info...
(Pub. Date: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN-13: 9780847876235)
This publication explores the rich intersections of portraiture and fashion in the art of the English painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), one of the most sought-after society portraitists of his age and a continued inspiration today....More info...
