(Pub. Date: 23-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845210)
Reveals how art shaped the economy, social order, and legal claims during the rise of capitalism. In the sixteenth century, German goldsmiths played a unique role in articulating property claims and social values. These artisans shaped precious met...More info...
Francisco de Zurbaran, master of Spains Golden Age, painted with unmatched stillness and intensity. Famed for his monks, saints and martyrs, he also created mesmerizing still lifes, making fabrics shimmer and fruit glow with quiet presence. This boo...More info...
Francisco de Zurbaran, master of Spains Golden Age, painted with unmatched stillness and intensity. Famed for his monks, saints and martyrs, he also created mesmerizing still lifes, making fabrics shimmer and fruit glow with quiet presence. This boo...More info...
What can design tell us about literature? What can literature tell us about design? The Design of Montaignes Essais provides a model for answering these questions by analysing the uses and function of the termdessein. Wresting design free from its...More info...
(Pub. Date: 22-Feb-2026, MP3, Publisher: Distributed By PublishDrive, ISBN-13: 9783999922423)
Bist du bereit, Zurich von seiner kreativsten Seite kennenzulernen? Viele denken bei der Limmatstadt zuerst an Banken und Luxus, doch Zurich birgt einen unglaublichen kulturellen Schatz, der nur darauf wartet, von dir entdeckt zu werden. Dieses Horbu...More info...
What can design tell us about literature? What can literature tell us about design? The Design of Montaignes Essais provides a model for answering these questions by analysing the uses and function of the termdessein. Wresting design free from its...More info...
(Pub. Date: 03-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691266633)
From the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, Gods Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heightsIn 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venices...More info...
(Pub. Date: 03-Feb-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691266633)
From the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, Gods Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heightsIn 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venices...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Dec-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040807477)
First published in 1961, The English Silver in the Kremlin explores the history of English silverware gifted to the Russian Kremlin during diplomatic exchanges between 1557 and 1663. In the year 1880 it became known that the Moscow Kremlin contained...More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Dec-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040807606)
First published in 1961, The English Silver in the Kremlin explores the history of English silverware gifted to the Russian Kremlin during diplomatic exchanges between 1557 and 1663. In the year 1880 it became known that the Moscow Kremlin contained...More info...
(Pub. Date: 29-Dec-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783422803527)
Die von Raffael entworfenen und von Giulio Romano ausgefuhrten Wandmalereien der Schlacht an der Milvischen Brucke und der Kreuzesvision in der nach dem Freskenzyklus benannten Sala di Costantino im Vatikan gelten in der Forschung als Ergebnis des in...More info...
Walter Paters first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and cultural history. The first book-length study of the Renaissance by a British writer, it was also described as the golden book...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-Dec-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040840467)
This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain i...More info...
This beautiful book brings you the very best of art throughout history - using a truly innovative timeline-led approach. Savour iconic paintings such as Leonardo da Vincis Last Supper and Monets Waterlilies, and discover less well-known artists, st...More info...
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494) was a master of Renaissance art, celebrated for his vivid frescoes and detailed portraits. Admired by Lorenzo de Medici and teacher to Michelangelo, his work reflects the vibrant artistic culture of fifteenth-century...More info...
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494) was a master of Renaissance art, celebrated for his vivid frescoes and detailed portraits. Admired by Lorenzo de Medici and teacher to Michelangelo, his work reflects the vibrant artistic culture of fifteenth-century...More info...
"e;Tout peintre se peint."e; La phrase etait a la mode a Florence a la fin du Quattrocento. Mais les reactions contrastees que suscite le succes de la formule montrent qu elle recouvre un enjeu fondamental de la Renaissance : la reconnaissanc...More info...
(Pub. Date: 07-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111165219)
For both Judaism and Christianity, the Menorah is an iconic artefact. It played a crucial role as an implement of the Tabernacle in the desert and the Temple in Jerusalem. After the destruction of the Temple and the eventual loss of the Menorah, it...More info...
Embark on a thrilling journey into one of Norways greatest historical mysteries! In 1537, amidst a power struggle and religious upheaval, Norways last Catholic archbishop flees to the Habsburg Netherlands, taking treasures from Nidaros Cathedral-St...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040780473)
This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that w...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040796443)
Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house of semi-religious women that became a Poor Clare convent and model of Franciscan Observant piety. Vigr...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040784617)
Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a school of art essentially den...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040781722)
Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction funct...More info...
Erin Griffey, Isabelle Paresys, Jemma Field, Lisa Mansfield, Robert Lublin, Maria Hayward, Susan Vincent, Evelyn Welch, Juliet Claxton, Laura Olivan...
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040799765)
For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the fir...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040788080)
Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040788028)
By almost any measure Bernardino Barbatelli, called Poccetti, was a successful and sought after painter in late sixteenth-century Florence, but his works have remained largely overlooked. This study situates representative examples of his religious p...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040784044)
The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times examines the history of Sienas famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventual replacement by a copy in the nineteenth century (and the modern fate of both). The book explore...More info...
Erin Griffey, Isabelle Paresys, Jemma Field, Lisa Mansfield, Robert Lublin, Maria Hayward, Susan Vincent, Evelyn Welch, Juliet Claxton, Laura Olivan...
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040773864)
For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the fir...More info...
Anne Dunlop, Larry Silver, Libby Melzer, Margaret M. Manion, Elaine Shaw, Bernard J. Muir, Hilary Maddocks, Miya Tokumitsu, Callum Reid, Ursula Betka...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040786376)
A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by Pieter Brueghel the Younger - much of the artwork in this book, held by Australian...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040778593)
The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media investigates El Grecos pictorial art as foundational to the globalising trends manifested in the visual culture of early modernity. It also exposes the figurative, semantic,...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040794753)
Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040784761)
Satire, Veneration, and St. Joseph in Art, c. 1300.1550 is the first book to reclaim satire as a central component of Catholic altarpieces, devotional art, and veneration, moving beyond humors relegation to the medieval margins or to the profane art...More info...
Christine Göttler, Michel Weemans, Mia Mochizuki, Victoria Sancho Lobis, Karin Leonhard, Romita Ray, Steffen Zierholz, Tina Asmussen, Ivo Raband, Michèle Seehafer...
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040782118)
Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic exploration at a time when environments and ecologies were reshaped and transformed. This volume historicizes the contingency of an ever...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040778883)
The Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times examines the history of Sienas famous public fountain, from its fifteenth-century origins to its eventual replacement by a copy in the nineteenth century (and the modern fate of both). The book explore...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040775059)
Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a school of art essentially den...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040785508)
The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarchs legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy. Petrarchs vast literary production influenced the intellectual framew...More info...
Tamara H. Bentley, Richard Glahn, James K. Chin, Hiroko Nishida, Donna Pierce, Angela Schotten-Hammer, Bill Sargent, Victoria Levine, Stacey Pierson
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040776742)
Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the sel...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040786499)
This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700. Covering painting, printmaking, and patronage, authors highlight the contributions of women art makers in the Netherlands, showing that w...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040779583)
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on religious materiality across the early modern world. Setting out from the premise that artefacts can provide material evidence of the nature of early modern religious practices and beliefs...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040783221)
Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic appr...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040773017)
Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction funct...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040789599)
Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaizquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with respect to artistic tradition. In particular, Knox considers the relationship of these artists to the ar...More info...
Karen Hope Goodchild, Paul Holberton, April Oettinger, Leopoldine Prosperetti, Paul Barolsky, Susan Russell, Jill Pederson, Sabine Peinelt-Schmidt, Patrizia Tosini, Rebekah Compton...
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040780602)
The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor is a poetic image that borrows from the vocabulary of weaving and epitomizes the Renaissance interest in fashioning green worlds in art and poetry. Here it serves as a motto for a cultural poetics that mad...More info...
Piers Baker-Bates, Arnold Witte, Irene Brooke, Miles Pattenden, Brian Maxson, Carol Richardson, Sarah Ferrari, Alessandra Pattanaro, Philippa Jackson, Thomas Leo True...
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040783245)
The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, often by well-known artists and skilled craftsmen. Yet cardinal portraits have primarily been analyzed...More info...
Anne Dunlop, Larry Silver, Libby Melzer, Margaret M. Manion, Elaine Shaw, Bernard J. Muir, Hilary Maddocks, Miya Tokumitsu, Callum Reid, Ursula Betka...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040780350)
A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by Pieter Brueghel the Younger - much of the artwork in this book, held by Australian...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040789216)
Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expression in stylistic diversity. The flourishing of different stylistic appr...More info...
Series: Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040798454)
During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed worldwide. Focusing on shells and pearls exchanged within local and global networks, this monograph comp...More info...
