Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Baroque & Rococo

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dealer, archaeologist, draftsman, publisher, bookseller, and author. In Piranesi's Lost Words, Heather Hyde Minor considers Piranesi the author and publisher, focusing on his major publications from 1756 to his death in 1778. Piranesi designed and manufactured twelve beautiful, large-format books combining visual and verbal content over the course of his lifetime. While the images from...

The British School of Sculpture, c. 1760 1832 represents the first edited collection exploring one of the most significant moments in British art history, returning to centre stage a wide range of sculpture considered for the first time by some of the most important scholars in the field. Following a historical and historiographical introduction by the editors, situating British sculpture in relation to key events and developments in the period, and the broader scholarship on British art more generally in the period and beyond, the book contains nine wide-ranging case...

Rubens & the Eloquence of Drawing examines the formative graphic practice of the preeminent Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) within the context of early modern concepts of eloquence, especially in the early 17th-century literary and philosophical circles of Justus Lipsius (1547-1606). Taking Rubens s drawings seriously as erudite models of emulation and disegno in the Italian Renaissance tradition, the book reconsiders Rubens s drawings during his Roman period and just after he returned home to Antwerp, c. 1600-1620, in light of early modern, northern...

This monograph is a study and catalogue of the artistic production of the Early Modern World including and evoking the so-called Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, plus an eighth, considered by scholars of the 15th and 16th centuries to be the Royal Monastery of El Escorial. Nowadays we often see announcements of worldwide votes to evaluate the inclusion of new monuments or buildings on a prestigious list, that of the Wonders of the World. This list, however, comes from a fascinating cultural tradition going back thousands of years, starting in the 3rd century BC in the Hellenistic period...