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The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance
Geography, Mobility, and Style
This important and innovative book examines artists’ mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and...
The Allure of the Archives
An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge’s
An American Style
Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1928
In 1915 the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) embarked upon a mission to energize the American textile industry. Curators sought to innovate a distinctly “American” design idiom drawing on a more universal “primitive”...
Roman Woodworking
A comprehensive exploration of woodworking in the ancient Roman world “A valuable overview in English of how the Romans used wood in objects great and small, humble and grand.”—Richard F. Liebhart, American Journal...
At Twilight They Return
A Novel in Ten Tales
The powerful and stylistically brilliant saga of a family by one of contemporary Greece’s literary masters Zyranna Zateli’s ambitious multigenerational saga is the story of Christoforos—husband to...
The Italian Renaissance Nude
The first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the Italian Renaissance nude, this lively study subverts the idea that the nude in this period was a triumph of classical revival. Looking again at familiar (even overly...
Schubert
A Musical Wayfarer
An insightful biography of the great composer, revealing Schubert’s complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most...
The Woman Who Discovered Printing
This beguiling book asks a set of unusual and fascinating questions—why is early Chinese printing so little acknowledged, despite anticipating Gutenberg by centuries? Why are the religious elements of all early...
Why Dance Matters
A passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers Mindy Aloff, a journalist, an essayist, and a dance critic, analyzes dance as the...
The Persian Album, 1400-1600
From Dispersal to Collection
This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to...