When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, vast networks of production that had provided splendor and sophistication to the royal court were severed. Although the king's royal possessions-from drapery and tableware to clocks and furniture suites-were scattered and destroyed, many of the artists who made them found ways to survive. This book explores the fabrication, circulation, and survival of French luxury after the death of the king. Spanning the final years of the ancien regime fro...
Michelangelo's creation of the monumental frescos in the Sistine Chapel marked a revolutionary event in Western art. Now, another revolutionary event has occurred: a nine-year restoration, carried out by experts at the Vatican Museums and described and illustrated in this incredible work. 312 illustrations, 293 in full color; gatefold.
Govan and Its Early Medieval Sculpture (Art/Architecture)
William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting concerns of British, European and American artists. Presenting interpretations of Turnbull's work from an impressive roll-call of over sixty art historians, curators, critics and artists, a picture emerges of an innovative artist who determinedly f...
Photographers in Florence
by C H Favrod, M Maffioli, Z Ciuffoletti, Ch -H Favrod, Z Cruffolettu, E Sesti, Charles-Henri Favrod, and Emanuela Sesti
Understanding Art in Antwerp (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, v.45)
On January 23-24, 2008 the University of Groningen hosted an international symposium entitled 'Understanding Art in Antwerp. Classicising the Popular, Popularising the Classic (1540-1580)', where art historians, literary historians and musicologists explored how art was understood in Antwerp in the sixteenth century, how that art understood itself and conveyed such understanding to others, and how students of early modern Antwerp should understand that concept of art historically. Attention was...
Gerard ter Borch und der westfälische Friedenskongress 1648 in Münster
by Stephanie Schoger
Il Luogo Ed Il Ruolo Della Citta DI Bologna Tra Europa Continentale e Mediterranea
Henning Christiansen/Ursula Reuter (Danish Contemporary Art Foundation S.)
by Rene Block and etc.
Art of the Italian Renaissance