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This groundbreaking book looks at the influence California and Mexico have had on each other's architecture and design in the 20th century. The histories of Mexico and the United States...

In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...

Published to accompany major exhibitions at the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia in 2015, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation uses objects from the extraordinary collection of the British...

Evidence: Brook Andrew is an immersive installation and publication that draws on the rich and varied Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences collection to explore the theme of evidence. Brook...

The book titled The West of England: An Artist's Journey through English Landscapes by the author Sydney R. Jones. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

On the wintry afternoon of Monday 28 November 1768, an architect and three artists were granted an audience with George III at St James's Palace; their mission, the foundation of...

In the first half of the eighteenth century the only galleries in which to view art were the homes of the upper classes. That art had a highly exclusive audience....

This is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land. Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world's longest continuing art tradition. It...

The book titled Buildings of Delight by the author Alec Clifton-Taylor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The Discobolus, the Venus de Milo and the Parthenon frieze are sculptural masterpieces of worldwide renown. But our appreciation of them as "works of art", enshrined in museums, is far...

Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world's most influential modern and contemporary artists. Richard Cork draws on his...

How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites.Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was the last disciple of...

The Italian Renaissance is one of the most important eras in Western art. Painters including Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Titian brought about a fundamental renewal that influenced all of Europe....

Tarnanthi accompanies the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and a series of exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of South Australia and partner organisations across...

The book titled Sketchbooks of the Romantics by the author Robert Upstone. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Leonardo by the author Maria Costantino. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first section of this illustrated pocket history traces Australia's development from aboriginal arrival up to 50,000 years ago to the present day. A second section looks at how each...

The book titled The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools by the author Cecil Gould. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Earlier Italian Schools by the author Martin Davies. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This study of the Greek revival opens with the rediscovery of Greece, involving the figures like Hell Fire Dashwood, Twitcher Sandwich and the Dilettanti Society. Their propagation of the Neo-Classical...

The book titled Marches Past by the author Peter Fuller. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa" considers the language of art in relationship to the issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately...

This book focuses on a puzzling but ubiquitous feature of Renaissance art: continuous narrative, in which several episodes, each including the characters, are shown in a single space or setting....

Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that...

Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with...

This series looks at artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology....

In "The Viewer as Poet", Norman Land provides a comprehensive survey of ekphrasis in literature and art criticism from antiquity through the Renaissance. Land demonstrates that Renaissance art criticism assimilated...

A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary...

The book titled Art and History of Venice by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first Ideal Home Exhibition opened in 1908, founded by the "Daily Mail" as a publicity tool and a way of increasing advertising revenue. The exhibition dealt with the "art...

Owen Jones (1809-1874), a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and printer, was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential contemporary figures in art and design theory. This insightful...

A revelatory new biography of the enigmatic Dutch artist, published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of his death The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the...

Arguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatello (c.1386-1466) was at the vanguard of a revolution in sculptural practice in the early Renaissance. Combining ideas from classical and medieval sculpture...

The book titled Edwardian Architecture: Style and Technology by the author Richard F. Fellows. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Richard Fellows' book explores the many influences on Edwardian architects. New methods and techniques, a mixture of tradition and progress, as well as the influence of the arts and crafts...

The period 1660-1720 saw the foundation of modern London. The city was transformed post-Fire from a tight warren of medieval timber-framed buildings into a vastly expanded, regularised landscape of brick...

In this new monograph, part of Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art the University of Reading, examines the work of Delacroix within...

David Castriota examines one of the most important monuments of early Roman Imperial art, the Ara Pacis Augustae, the sculptured marble altar built to celebrate the peace, prosperity, and stability...

This book examines the intellectual, cultural, political, and social context of papal art during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Separating the early eighteenth century from the context that...

This is an entertaining account of the personal and professional rivalry between two outstanding 19th-century architects - Decimus Burton, rich and genteel, society figure, designer and prime member of the...

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today-as he was in his own time-for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images...

This wide-ranging book explores the architecture-principally ecclesiastical-of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed...

English architect John Soane created dramatic and unpredictable buildings that continue to inspire architects worldwide. This biography tells the story of the self-made, irascible architect's turbulent life and the remarkable...

This is the first full-scale study of the artist, his career and his key contribution to the 17th century Bolognese school of painting. Beginning with an account of Albani's life...

Rosso Fiorentino is one of the most original and difficult painters of the entire Renaissance period, and a crucial figure among the so-called Mannerists. This account of the life and...

The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art....

The book titled Where Colour Plays a Distinctive Role: Sikkens Award by the author Petra Timmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.