Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the ...

Any historiography of architecture is inherently implicated and incomplete by definition: implicated because it demonstrates the interpretation and curation of examples by the one who writes it, and ...

Baroque & Rococo : idea & image -- Setting the stage : social, cultural, & artistic institutions -- The Baroque church : setting for mystery, propaganda, & worship ...

In-demand British painter Flora Yukhnovich, known for her florid canvases that draw equally on the traditions of French Rococo, Italian Baroque, and Abstract Expressionism, is the latest artist to ...

Rogers is known for large-scale photographs shot completely underwater, featuring figures in the midst of billowing garments ...

xxi, 200 (i.e. 400) p. 200 illus. 24 cm ...

Nymphenburg, Nymphenburg Palace (Schloss Nymphenburg) was built as a gift for the wife of Elector Ferdinand Maria, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, on the birth of their long-awaited son. Designed by ...