I Caravaggeschi

Alessandro Zuccari

Although many questions remain regarding Caravaggio's work, it is certain that he never formed a proper school or studio. Caravaggio did, however, have a substantial circle of followers throughout Europe. This circle was formed both by those who knew him pe...

Die Malerei der deutschen Renaissance

Anne-Marie Bonnet

Die Malerei der Renaissance in Deutschland verdankt ihren Ruhm den großen Namen der Kunstgeschichte: Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Holbein, Hans Baldung Grien und Grünewald - jeder von ihnen eine starke und eigenwillige Künstlerper...

Virtu d'amore

Queste tavole dipinte erano nate come parti di sontuosi arredi - cassoni, spalliere, letti - delle case fiorentine del Quattrocento e in esse si celebrano il matrimonio e la stirpe, le virtù civiche e coniugali; commissionate in occasione delle nozze, erano...

Die Holländische Genremalerei in Schwerin

Gero Seelig

Die Schweriner Sammlung niederländischer Malerei bietet einen besonders umfangreichen und attraktiven Einblick in das Thema Genre mit mehr als 100 Werken. Die Ausstellung zeigt vielfältige Sujets, darunter Bauernschenken, Musikantenfiguren, Fischverkäufer a...

Painting for Profit

Richard E Spear

How did economic conditions influence painters in seventeenth-century Italy? How much did they earn? What is known about their socio-economic status and their aspirations? How did they maximize profits? Did they adjust their prices in response to market pre...

Anachronic Renaissance

Alexander Nagel

In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Nagel and Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, an...

Der Sonnenkönig und seine Feinde

Hendrik Ziegler

Ludwig XIV. setzte Kunst massiv zu politisch-propagandistischen Zwecken ein; entsprechend ist er auf diesem Gebiet im In- und Ausland vehement und nachhaltig attackiert worden. Die Studie geht daher nicht nur der Frage nach, wie sich Ludwig XIV. während sei...

Architecture as Icon

Presenting the first formulation of the central subject, this volume challenges major assumptions long held by Western art historians and provides new ways of thinking about, looking at and understanding Byzantine art in its broadest geographic and chronolo...

Medici Gardens

Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

"Medici Gardens: From Making to Design" challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book rev...