Between five and ten million paintings were produced in the Dutch republic in the seventeenth century. There was a greater demand for art, probably becuase of the purchaising power of the middle classs. The art market was regulated by the local Guild of Saint Luke.
In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians present a stunning reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. With intellectual brilliance, Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood reexamine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies,…
Richard Smith: seven exhibitions 1961-75
by Smith, Richard, Rose, Barbara, Tate Gallery
"Building on art-historian Bernard Smith's insights about modernism's debts to the high imperial occult and exotic, this book explores the transcultural, 'anti-modern vitalist', and magical-syncretic dimensions of the arts of the period 1880-1960. Avoiding simplistic hypotheses …
"Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration. This complex and colorful system of images covers the walls and vaults of churches with figures and compositions seen against a dazzling gold ground. The surviving elev…
The photographs in the book, together with the main chapters and the sections on forms and techniques, show how much more there is to the Romanesque apart from round arches and heavy, powerful walls. Some of the pictures will convey the special atmosphere which characterizes a m…
This book explores the cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era.
Economist John Michael Montias (1928-2005) was a pionier in the study of the socio-economic dimensions of art, in particular the art market and patronage in the seventeenth century in Holland. Johannes Vermeer and his patron Pieter Claesz. van Ruijven was his special object of r…
