Originally published London 1924. Contents Include. The Serenade at Caserta Les Indes Galantes The King and the Nightingale Biography etc. Many of the earliest books particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before are now extremely scarce and increasingly e... Lees meer.

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Understanding Art is a two-volume fully illustrated work that strives to explain and discuss four important periods in the history of western art--the Romanesque Gothic Renaissance and Baroque. Understanding Art is a two-volume fully illustrated work that striv... Lees meer.

The title Caravaggio to Mattia Preti aptly provides the parameters that span seventeenth century baroque painting in Malta. Caravaggio s move to Malta in 1607 opened this magnificent chapter in Maltese art to which the island responded with extraordinary artistic fore... Lees meer.

A comprehensive illustrated survey of Western art from Stone Age to present day placing individual masterworks of painting sculpture and architecture within their respective civilizations... Lees meer.

Caravaggio to Canaletto A stunning exhibition catalogue from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.The catalogue seeks to provide a comprehensive picture of Italian Baroque and Rococo painting containing numerous new research results pertaining to issues of attribution... Lees meer.

Genoa was a fabulously wealthy cosmopolitan municipality in the 17th century with a rich and diverse artistic tradition. Nourished by a range of commercial links with other European cities its rulers and citizens built sumptuous palaces and churches on the strength of... Lees meer.

The discovery of an unknown collection of old master paintings is today a rare occurrence. This volume catalogues and illustrates more than sixty Italian French German and Netherlandish paintings of outstanding quality from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centu... Lees meer.

Every conceivable expression of this epoch from Roman baroque to Dutch painting and naturally the unfolding splendour of Louis XIV is gathered in this volume. This work includes. chronological depiction of the fine arts from their origins in Rome through the late baro... Lees meer.

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Surveys the development of Baroque art in each European country... Lees meer.

A long overdue re-assessment of the Neapolitan painter Paolo de Matteis this volume examines the artist s most significant works and shows how posterity s impression of him has been conditioned by a biased biographical and literary tradition. This volume represents... Lees meer.

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Even though it was a time of near financial ruin in Flanders Baroque art flourished during this period thanks to the patronage of an arts-minded aristocracy. Meanwhile the Dutch had become rich from trade and the desire for art found its way into almost every social c... Lees meer.

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