The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen, graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or
Tanner (an independent scholar in New York) touches on the history and meaning of a number of classical-style monuments in this study, as she seeks to formulate the meaning of Bramante's ultra-classic
This volume is published in honour of Nigel Morgan, whose meticulous scholarship and inspiring teaching have contributed so richly to the study of medieval art. The thematic and material variety of i
Written by leading manuscript scholars, the 15 essays of this collection offer current research, analysis, and discoveries on a range of late medieval English manuscripts, each of them reflecting the
One of the most admired medical books of the Middle Ages, Medicina Antiqua is a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia
Impressive for its scholarship and beautifully produced by this high-quality publisher, this 2-volume work catalogs the paintings, prints, and drawings made by German and Netherlandish artists that Ro
Prolific as he was gifted, Rubens retouched and copied original drawings and paintings throughout his career. In this 2-volume catalogue, the first of a 3-part series, the drawings, copies, or retouch
The Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens is probably the most important foreign artist to have worked in England. The story of how this came to be, of what he did and whom he met when he was there, and wh
Published in an oversized format (8.75x11.25") on glossy paper, and filled with b&w and some color plates of superior quality, this two-volume work contains an authoritative corpus of the 16th-cen
The present volume catalogues and illustrates all the stained glass produced before 1700 in the collections of Upstate New York. It includes the glass in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Memorial
Art historian Van der Stock undertook the project to catalogue the Royal Library of Belgium's print collection, much of which was acquired in the 19th century when the budget was more advantageous (th
The objects of the impressively large and chronologically broad collection of Italian sculpture (it spans the 8th to the 20th centuries) in the Detroit Institute of Arts receive suitably thorough trea
The first of two volumes that will index English manuscripts in Cambridge collections, this volume contains manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum and Christ's, Clare, Corpus Christi, Emmanuel, and Gon
This is a new volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was an important per
The rich collection of 15th- through 19th-century Central European drawings of the Crocker Collection in Sacramento is the subject of this beautifully realized catalogue by Kaufmann (art history, Prin
The Coronation Book of Charles V of France is a document of historical and art-historical importance. Its text describes step-by-step the coronation ceremony of Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon, and it