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This study of 18th-century villas and their representation in Marc'Antonio Dal Re's prints aims to deepen understanding of designed, recreational landscapes as both spatial expression and aesthetic obscuring of social and environmental relations in the Habsburg empire.

Creighton Gilbert's study of the frescoes of the Cappella Nuova in the cathedral of Orvieto explains the commissioning, iconography and structure of this extraordinary cycle of paintings, begun by Fra Angelico in the early 1400s and completed a half-century later by Luca Signorelli.

The pace and scale of the exchange of cultural goods of all sorts increased sharply in 19th century Spain, and new institutions and practices for exhibiting "art" were soon formed. Vazquez maps this cultural landscape.

A study of French sculptor and political activist, Jean Baffier, a promoter of regional culture and a militant nationalist who attempted a political assassination.. It explores the range of Baffier's activities and shows that he was pursuing a vast scheme of national purification and rebirth.

Using the Spinelli family archive, this text paints a picture of the Florentine merchant family's ascent to prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries. Focusing on Tommaso Spinelli, arts patronage, papal finance and silk and wool manufacturing is glimpsed through letters and financial ledgers.

Ascanio Condivi was a pupil of, and assistant to, the great artist Michelangelo. This is a translation of Condivi's biography of Michelangelo. It tells the story of his life, his relationship with his patrons, his objectives as an artist and his accomplishments.

This study seeks to situate Bazille within the complex art world of the 1860s. It examines a series of major paintings and critical essays by Bazille and his contemporaries and frames them within the modernist discourse about purity, or respecting the proper limits of the medium.

A broad look at the humorous side of photography during its first 75 years. It presents a wide range of examples found in cartoons, literature, music, fashion and advertising, and takes readers behind the technical and commercial uses of the photographic medium.

How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? The author suggests in this book that the philosophic problems posed by this question and others are insuperable. He argues that art history as writing must be taken seriously for its own sake.

This text examines the development of royal imagery in Georgia between the 9th and 13th centuries, particularly focusing on the five surviving images of Queen Tamar. The author shows how the portraits demonstrate the relationship between art and power, and the transmission of ideas to an audience.

Images of women were ubiquitous in America at the turn of the last century. This study argues that the artists' concept of art coincided with the construction of gender in American culture. It looks at these images of women across stylistic boundaries and within the wider context of European art.

With the exception of early Egypt and Minoan Crete, no early culture had such a vigorous stone vase-making industry as the Cyclades. For each vessel type, Pat Getz-Gentle considers the material used, the size range, the formal characteristics and variation, and manufacturing methods.

This text provides a study of the origins and 17th-century significance of prints by Claes Jansz Visscher, Esaias van den Velde, Willem Buytewech and Jan van de Velde, which were seminal in the subsequent development of naturalistic native Dutch scenery in prints and paintings.

This is a study of the significance of Degas's painting "A Cotton Office in New Orleans", in terms of its representation of 19th-century capitalism. The study concentrates on the social meanings of the painting in the light of shifting audiences and changing market conditions.

This is a picture of Dali's life and art, with an approach somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation. Dali is shown as haunted by the devouring phantom of his mother, the praying mantis on whose portrait he would like to spit.

This volume contains a full description of the Gospel Lectionary held in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, USA. An unusual 12th-century work, it was one of only three such manuscripts made in Constantinople, and the only one of these to contain narrative illustration.

The Gothic architecture and stained glass of medieval Lorraine developed strong regional characteristics which are considered unique today. This volume presents a study of Lorraine's surviving stained glass, focusing on Metz Cathedral and other cathedrals and rural parish churches in the area.

This work is a portrait of Michelangelo.

This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the portraits of King Charles V of France.

This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series presents a study of the Bigallo at Florence.

Presents a study of this ancient manuscript.

This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the Romanesque wood doors of Auvergne.

Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of materials and personnel.

Examines three projects in late nineteenth-century scientific photography: the endeavors of Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton, and Etienne-Jules Marey. Develops new theoretical perspectives on the history of photographic technology, as well as the history of scientific imaging more generally.

Examines German broadsides published in America from 1730 to 1830. Through them, explores aspects of the German-American world, including printing, religious practices, social life, politics, education, farming, economics, and medicine.

A study based on the text, the Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari. Discusses how the visual arts in the Renaisssance were an occasion for delight or pleasure. Argues that such an attention was encouraged by certain social and intellectual practices.

This collection of photographs focuses upon a group of young people - some were runaways - who in 1993 established a communal, home in an abandoned glass factory on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

During the 1960s, artists such as Alan Kaprow, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol stopped making "art", they staged performances that mixed everyday life with theatre and challenged the system of marketing, display and aesthetic discourses. This work brings together a cross- section of such endeavours.

Beginning in the 1950s, the Lancaster Redevelopment Authority adopted urban renewal programmes to revitalize a downtown that was experiencing economic decline. This text charts this redevelopment, and is an examination of a northern city struggling with its history and the legacy of segregation.

Every epoch produces its own notions of social change, and the post-Communist societies of Eastern Europe are no exception. This text explores the fate of contemporary Latvia, a small country with a big story that is relevant for the understanding of the nature of post-Communist transitions.