Carel de Moor (1655–1738). His Life and Work, a monograph and œuvre catalogue, is the first scholarly study of one of the most important Dutch portrait painters of his time. The book includes a comprehensive biography, which explores Carel de Moor’s life and multi-faceted career within the context of the economic, political, and social history of the Dutch Republic.

As a result of the authors’ thorough investigation of De Moor’s client networks, several hitherto unknown sitters have...

De beroemde portretschilderes Louise Vigée-le Brun wordt op 16 april 1755 in Parijs geboren. Aan het eind van haar leven publiceert ze haar memoires: 'Souvenirs' (1835-1837).

Hierin beschrijft zij op levendige wijze haar jeugd, opvoeding, ontwikkeling en opleiding tot schilderes. Ze wordt de favoriete portretschilderes van koningin Marie-Antoinette. Ze is ook zeer populair bij de adel en aan het hof, ze heeft er velen geportretteerd en verdient enorme sommen geld. Zij organiseert voor deze...

In Anarchy of the Body, art historian KuroDalaiJee (a.k.a. Kuroda Raiji) sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s. A culmination of years of research, Anarchy of the Body draws on an extensive breadth of source material to reveal how the practice of performance by individual artists and art groups during this period formed a legacy of resistance against instituti...

Rather than centring on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turn to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections...

'Animal Modernities' challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance ...

Een groot deel van de Nederlandse kunst uit de zeventiende eeuw werd speciaal besteld. Het was opdrachtkunst. De opdrachtgevers hadden daarmee grote invloed op de kunstproductie. Hun artistieke verwachtingen en smaak bepaalden een groot deel van wat we nu als de Gouden Eeuw van de Nederlandse schilderkunst beschouwen. Maar wat de grote opdrachtgevers precies van kunst vonden, en waarom, is nog nooit onderzocht. Dit boek brengt daar verandering in. Het beschrijft hoe de artistieke verwachtinge...

Magnificent publication on the depiction of Paris by the French impressionists such as Monet, Cassatt, Renoir and Degas

In 1867, Claude Monet painted three iconic views of Paris from the balcony of the Louvre, thus firing the starting shot of Impressionism. This book explores these groundbreaking works in detail, alongside a multitude of other Impressionist paintings and drawings.

Experts from leading museums around the world show how Paul Cézanne, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt and many ...