This beautifully illustrated volume showcases the treasures of the preeminent medieval collection of the US in the course of providing an accessible and authoritative overview of medieval art, its col
The Invention of Pastel Painting describes the relatively sudden emergence in the later seventeenth century of sets of friable pastel sticks and a new artistic practice of painting in pastel. The auth
This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century. Incorporating the work of Ellen John
This stunning book delivers a pictorial celebration of the look and attitude of 'Ivy'. In the decade between 1955 and 1965 a coterie of discerning Hollywood hipsters appropriated the incomparable Ivy
This volume focuses on both the theoretical and technical aspects of conservation in the nineteenth century, as well as their impact on the profession today.
The Corning Museum of Glass possesses the most celebrated collection of glass in the world, including the extensive world-renowned collection of Roman Glass.
The book examines the inherent attributes of spacemaking elements like roofs, walls, doors, windows, columns, stairs and floors and analyses their implicit influences in the design of space.
An account of painter Ravi Varma's traditional background and environment and how they related to the modernization of colonial India, as well as his profession as an aristocratic itinerant painter.
