At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, nee Mary Granville (1700-1788), embarked upon a series of nearly a thousand botanical collages, or 'paper mosaics', which would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life. This book reveals the complexity of her engagement with natural science, fashion and design.

Presents an overview of Rembrandt's extraordinary achievement as a draughtsman. This book discusses the more than 150 drawings culled from a corpus of some 800.

Presents an informative introduction to the tradition of French landscape painting. Featuring full-colour illustrations, this title highlights the key moments of the French landscape tradition from its emergence in the 1600s to its pre-eminence in the 1800s.

Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700.

The Caravaggesque Painters. A Catalogue of the Artists and Works.

Details some 750 titles. This work provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps and large single prints. It is suitable for the Bewick aficionado, book historian, historian of popular art in the eighteenth century, and also for the provincial printing enthusiast or admirer of engraving on wood or on copper.

This book invites readers to experience eighteenth-century Venice through the eyes of Canaletto, the city's most renowned landscape painter, his contemporaries, and the decorative arts of the period.

Presents a study of Georgian easel painting in connection with Russian and European art. This book defines basic artistic and stylistic tendencies of Georgian easel painting in relation to its contemporary Russian and European painting on the basis of the application of typological and comparative methods.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the painting and the music of three centuries. This book presents and comments on the most important paintings of the respective century in chronological order. It also provides explanations of the specific connections between the history of music and painting.

Offers a compact overview of music and painting through the centuries. This title presents the important artworks and musical compositions of the 17th century. It conveys the background detail and points of interest in relation to each painting or piece of music through concise commentaries.

Presents a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children since the seventeenth century. Recognising the importance of methodological diversity, this title discusses understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts.

This is the first complete translation of the biographies of fifteen artists, including Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, written by the seventeenth-century antiquarian Giovan Pietro Bellori.

Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 - Prometheus Bound , The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus , Juno and Argus , and The Finding of Erichthonius , this book examines the artist's approach to classical mythology.

Published to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Williamsburg. The period interiors contextualise the treasures and provide ideas for home decoration. Include pull-out text boxes which provide insight into art and decoration techniques.

Features caricatures of the famous and the unknown, including: Adam Smith, James Hutton, Vincent Lunardi in his balloon, Lachlan McBain, a roasting jack vendor, Lord Monboddo, the skating minister, Robert Johnston and Sibilla Hunt, the most corpulent shopkeepers in Edinburgh, Margaret Sutter, a hawker of salt, Deacon Brodie, and, Henry Dundas.