This book explores the relationship between people and cattle through the ages via works of art and artefacts drawn from the rich collection of the British Museum. The author compares and contrasts im
Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from cul
Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their status during the early Renaissance. This quickened
"A valentine to lovers everywhere, this dazzling depiction of love through the ages is culled from the collection of one of the world's most famous museums, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. More than 1
Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe explores the phenomenon of Holocaust transfer, analysing the widespread practice of using the Holocaust and its imagery for the representation and recording
The Angel Tree: Celebrating Christmas at The Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases the magnificent collection of Neapolitan Baroque angels and creche figures that has thrilled visitors from across the
The most iconic face in art over the past 2,000 years has been that of Jesus. As the central figure in Christianity, he has been a source of comfort and support to followers around the world. In The F
Authors Calvin, an art historian, and Deacon, dean of graduate studies at Harrison Middleton University, catalog women artists whose work depicts the female experience of war, including artists at hom
Showcases illustrated magazine covers, postcards, stamps, prints, and newspaper pages that commemorate the holiday, along with a chronology that describes the events before, during, and after the firs
In this beautifully illustrated book, the Reverend Nicholas Holtam–vicar of London's internationally renowned church St. Martin-in-the-Fields–presents his favorite paintings from the National Gallery,
Ever since Bram Stoker?s perennial best-seller Dracula, vampires have been one of the key inspirations to film-makers and authors alike. The latest installment in the Twilight series is one of this ye
Empire to Nation offers a new consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation's
In this painstaking iconography, Kuehn compiles an exhaustive survey of the occurrence of dragons in art and architectural decoration in Turkey, especially Anatolia, and stretching east into Central A
As the author shows in his lengthy introduction on the theory of portraiture and the historiography of Indian sculpture, the notion that portraits existed in pre-Mughal Indian art has long been reject
Editors Sarah Blick (art history, Kenyon College) and Laura G. Gelfand (art history, U. of Akron) chose the title in reference to a creature called a Pushmi-pullyu described in Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dool
Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the moveme
Guttmann (English and American studies, Amherst U.)employs an unusual format to marry American history with the history of sports art in the country, exploring the parallel development of sport, art,
Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Francoise Barbe-Gall illuminates our understanding of how these have bee
The classical human body is perhaps the single most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to the modern world by antiquity. Not only has it directed the evolutionary trajectory of western art;
