This highly original book focuses on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his illustrious Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Rather than comparing their artistic output, the distingui[...]

Covering the period from 700 to 1600 AD from the reconnection with a Christian-Roman tradition in the seventh century to the break from Rome in the sixteenth after the Reformation, this volume is suitable to the study of British Art from secondary school to PhD level.[...]

In the 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo archive called "The Image of the Black in Western Art". Now, fifty years later, as the first American president of African American descent occupies his h[...]