Der Speyerer Dom ist mehr als ein herausragendes Bauwerk der Romanik – er ist ein Zeugnis europäischer Geschichte, eine architektonische Meisterleistung und ein Symbol für Macht, Glaube und kulturelles Erbe.
Peter Paul Rubens gilt als einer der größten Meister des Barock – ein Visionär, der die Kunst seiner Zeit revolutionierte und Emotionen, Bewegung und Farbe in eine einzigartige Harmonie verwandelte.
Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trousers, is a ubiquitous figure in French art and culture.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Chinese embroidery, including its history, styles in different regions, patterns, techniques, and its appreciation.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Chinese embroidery, including its history, styles in different regions, patterns, techniques, and its appreciation.
From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field.
Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal, or related to it through colonial relationships.
What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?
Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance.
This edited volume explores the notion of "e;artifice"e; in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe.
Republics and empires provides transnational perspectives on the significance of Italy to American art and visual culture and the impact of the United States on Italian art and popular culture.
The Lure of the South looks at the experience of British health seekers in the explosion of continental touring that occurred after the opening of the Post-Napoleonic European continent to relatively easy access.
