Many books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 had an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects title-pages which represent theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine and explains that these pages were not m...Daugiau...
The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, drama, inscriptions and published festival books that voiced the social, political and cultural m...Daugiau...
Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary and musical themes. In particular it examines the formulation and use of images of Louis XIV abroad, concentrating on Louis neighbours...Daugiau...
Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural artefacts such as paintings, jewellery, and garments, this volume examines the impact of Habsburg royal women in the broader historica...Daugiau...
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 13001800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art. This book will interest scholars in art history, religion, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies....Daugiau...
18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680 1790 introduces the reader to English 18th century tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, cutting out in cloth and construction techniques in sequence for the tailoring...Daugiau...
This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Miltons Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England....Daugiau...
Stitching La Mode: Patterns and Dressmaking from Fashion Plates of 1785-1795 brings to life womens unique and extravagant fashions of 1785-1795 in a beautifully illustrated and accessible way....Daugiau...
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth-century English vocal music, this study restores English musics connections with the picturesque. This book explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee...Daugiau...
This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Greats image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century....Daugiau...
Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualization of the past in Britain....Daugiau...
This book illuminates the original functions of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain and is intended to be read primarily by specialists, graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in new approaches to Britis...Daugiau...
This book considers the historical reception of Thomas Gainsboroughs Blue Boy (c. 1770) from its creation to manifestations of its image in contemporary art and visual culture....Daugiau...
Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate...Daugiau...
Chinese-Islamic studies have concentrated thus far on the arts of earlier periods with less attention paid to works from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This book focuses on works of Chinese-Islamic art from the late seventeenth century to the present...Daugiau...
Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting....Daugiau...
This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors predilection for Italian painting and Spanish painters Italian influences....Daugiau...
Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court....Daugiau...
