Seven hundred previously unpublished drawings, pastels, and collages by Francis Bacon are presented here in thematic sections, with commentary by noted art historian Edward Lucie-Smith. Text in English and Italian.

This book explores a phenomenon in the history of print collecting that has never been extensively investigated: the cutting and pasting of prints in the Early Modern period. The book focuses on the colourful Dutch classical scholar and libertine Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716). Beverland was banished from the Dutch Republic in 1679 for publishing blasphemous, heterodox, and provocative scholarly texts on sex and sin. Books that dealt with e.g. prostitution in ancient times, original sin as th...

Male bonds were omnipresent in nineteenth-century European artistic scenes, impacting the creation, presentation, and reception of art in decisive ways. Men’s lives and careers bore the marks of their relations with other men. Yet, such male bonds are seldom acknowledged for what they are: gendered and historically determined social constructs. This volume shines a critical light on male homosociality in the arts of the long nineteenth century by combining art history with the insights of g...

Ze zijn het beeldmerk van het buitenleven op Nederlandse buitenplaatsen: tuinkoepels. Ze staan in parken, langs lanen, wegen, vaarten en rivieren. Ze spreken tot de verbeelding, roepen herinneringen op aan het plezierige buitenleven van welgestelde stedelingen van weleer. Het bekendst zijn tegenwoordig de koepels langs de Utrechtse Vecht. Ook op andere plaatsen in ons land zijn tuinkoepels te vinden, terwijl er nog eens talloze zijn verdwenen.

In dit boek belichten acht auteurs verschillende ...