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Investigates the idea of beauty over time and space. This book offers a chronological account whose conceptual and historical paradigms have been reiterated and contested into the twentieth century. It not only sketches the circumstances that shaped Winckelmann's project but also assesses this scholar's influence on European intellectual life.

Explores the curiosity and collaboration that has existed between East and West for centuries. This title reveals a largely hidden history of mutual curiosity and fruitful collaboration at a time when few people travelled far from home.

Offers fresh insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. The author offers a cultural history of the functions of the visual arts, the messages that these images carried, and the values that they affirmed in late Republican Rome and the Empire.

An elegantly conceived book on the revolutionary and stunning works of a nineteenth- century French master.

The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, offers an incisive look into Lamelas's art.

A standard reference in the field of manuscript studies for over twenty years, now revised and updated with full-colour illustrations throughout.

A guide to identifying Christian saints as they are portrayed in art. From Agatha to Zeno, it presents the characteristic features of over 100 saints, with notes on their lives and martyrdom and visual references to help readers recognize them. The resource features a collection of masterpieces.

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed success during his life. Crowds flocked to see his vibrant compositions and thanks to mass marketing of his work through mechanical reproduction, he reached audiences on an unprecedented scale. This title includes the essays challenging critical biases against the artist.

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Wagner's manifesto is a plea for an end to architectural eclecticism and for a more rational approach to design suited to contemporary life.

Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) was one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century. This title presents an overview of Riopelle's life and situate his work within the context of 20th century art. It addresses Riopelle's materials and techniques, focusing on his oil paintings, mixed media works, and conservation issues.

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887 is the first book to study the life and artistic development of this painter in depth and in the context of the urban life and upper-class Paris that shaped the man and his work.

An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown.

The balance between conserving fragile ancient cultural sites and making them available to increasing numbers of visitors is one of the main themes of this book. Topics discussed include site management, the reconstruction of ancient buildings and ways of presenting sites for today's visitors.

This guide aims to help readers recognize the legendary characters of classical antiquity in art. The characters are described in entries summarizing their stories, special attributes, and the ways in which artists have depicted them. Each entry is illustrated with reproductions of artworks.

Offers a detailed overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece - with contributions from both those who have excavated the sites and scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the monuments.

A study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter, from the 1940s through the 1970s. Using scientific examinations of the artist's pigments, binders, and supports, it informs art historical interpretations, presenting a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work.

Explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France.

The young Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) created a major stir in late-sixteenth-century Rome with the groundbreaking naturalism and highly charged emotionalism of his paintings. This illustrated volume takes a fresh look at Caravaggio's life and works.

A comprehensive overview of ancient ambers, the only such book in English, is now revised.

Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world.

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity.

Drawing on previously unpublished primary material from archives in Paris, Berlin, Rome, and Venice, Noemie Etienne combines art history with anthropology and sociology to survey the waning decades of the Ancien Regime and early post-Revolution France.

"A survey of all the mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, documenting their physical features as well as the contexts of their discovery and excavation across Rome's expanding empire--from its center in Italy to provinces in southern Gaul, North Africa, and ancient Syria"--Provided by publisher.

In 2005, the Institut National du Patrimoine of Tunisia played host to the ninth Triennial meeting of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM). The meeting focused on assessing past practices of mosaic conservation, both in situ and in museums. This volume provides readers with a record of the conference proceedings.

Greek painted pottery from the fourth century BC is one of the largest and most remarkable bodies of theatrically informed material that still survives. This work provides a large body of photographs accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion of the vases, organized by playwright - including Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

Focuses on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. This title delivers both a sweeping overview and an in-depth investigation from Homeric times (1000 BCE) to late Roman times (AD 400). It explores festivals and religious links to neighbouring societies.

An anthology of important texts tracing the historical development of the conservation of works of art on paper.

Offers an informative overview of the research and development in stone conservation. Suitable for conservators and conservation scientists, this title reflects the explosion of research, enlarging the discussion of preventive conservation and adding sections on rock art and other subjects.