Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art spans the period from the 10th to the 15th century, including discussion of the Carolingian renaissance and the 12th century proto-renaissance.

Burke has thoroughly revised and updated the text for this new edition, including a new introduction, and the book is richly illustrated throughout.

"--Jennifer Reese,Entertainment Weekly(Grade: A-) "Incisive and entertaining . . . This book tells an amazing story, with thrills and chills more extreme than the workings of a comic book’s imagination.

This is a guidebook to the many major examples of public art in metropolitan Detroit and a proof that the tradition of art in public places is enjoying a renaissance.

This lovely book includes such artists as Van Eyck, Campin, Van der Weyden, David, Memling, and Bruegel, and contains commentaries on individual works, an appendix of paintings not covered in the text, artists' biographies, a glossary, a ...

This invaluable handbook, provides clear definitions and distinctions between the terms and helps to navigate the complexities of magic, magical and marvellous realism within art and literary criticism.

A series of exercises designed to assist the art student to develop his own creativity, rather than imitate that of others.

In this comprehensive survey, Vidya Dehejia explains and analyses not only such key early developments as the great cities of the Indus civilization, but also the luxury of the Mughal court.

A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays.

This volume contains 27 pieces--uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and ...