Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art.

Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art tells. But each of us also has our own story of art, a kind of private art history made up of th...

An introductory guide to the art of ancient Greece and Rome, capturing the passion and inspiration that fired the artists of these civilizations

An affordable, accessible introduction to artworks in the global landscape, including land art, site-specific art and sculpture parks.

GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE WESTERN HISTORY, provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions, and, with MindTap, all of the online study tools you need to excel in your art history course! Easy to read and understand, the fourth edition includes new artists and provides a rich cultural backdrop for each of the covered periods and geographical locations.

Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the devel...

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Monet makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

Hoe schilderde Vermeer zijn iconische Meisje met de parel? Welke gedaanteverwisselingen onderging Suzanna en de ouderlingen van Rembrandt? Heeft de restauratie van de Sixtijnse Kapel ons dichter bij Michelangelo gebracht? En is het duurste schilderij ooit geveild nou wel of niet van Da Vinci? In Sluier van de tijd vertelt Benjamin Rous welke geheimen er schuilgaan onder het oppervlak van bekende en minder bekende kunstwerken.

De tijd versluiert wat we weten over kunstwerken. Hoe kunnen we di...

In Waarom een schilderij werkt onderzoekt Jurriaan Benschop de veelvormige schilderkunst van onze tijd. Hij introduceert het werk van tientallen schilders, bespreekt de thema’s die in het werk te vinden zijn en stelt daarbij steeds de vraag: waarom werkt dit schilderij? Dit brengt hem bij zowel zichtbare aspecten van schilderkunst, zoals beeldmotief en de manier van schilderen, als bij wat onzichtbaar achter het doek ligt: de drijfveren, het wereldbeeld en de culturele achtergrond van de ku...

A distinguished black man kneels on a riverbank before a bearded white man in robes, with the air of a prophet. What could a depiction of this scene be other than the well-known story from chapter 8 of The Acts of the Apostles? No Dutch notary of the seventeenth century hesitated in identifying the subject of a painting with this motif as the baptism by Philip of an Ethiopian official called a moor, a eunuch or a chamberlain. On the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, he becomes convinced of the div...