The series offers authoritative, yet accessible surveys, each volume focusing on a region's art, a particular period or style of Western art, or a major figure. This account includes consideration of
Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this brilliantly original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West? Beginning with a meditat
The well known scholar of classical art, Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK) and Squire (Trinity College, Cambridge) have written a thematic account of the classical world that provides the
