Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The Art of Mary Linwood
Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845...
Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France
The Enlightened Mind: Education in the Long Eighteenth Century
China and the Church: Chinoiserie in Global Context
This groundbreaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic missions’ impact on Western attitudes...
Framing Majismo: Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to ‘regain’ Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types...
Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons
In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England. Popular actors in Georgian...
Representing Duchess Anna Amalia’s Bildung: A Visual Metamorphosis in Portraiture from Political to Personal in Eighteenth-Century Germany
The cultural milieu in the ‘Age of Goethe’ of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-Eisenach. An important noblewoman and...
Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from The Horvitz Collection
Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from the Horvitz Collection is primarily an exhibition of drawings but will include pastels, paintings, and sculptures selected from one of the world’s best private collections...
Touring and Publicizing England’s Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England’s grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and...
Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor
Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers...
Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History
This stunning visual guide is a journey of discovery through fashion’s fascinating history, one day at a time. Beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st, Worn On This Day looks at garments worn on monumental occasions across...
The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Art of Travel
For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôts of the Mediterranean, these go-betweens forged intercultural connections even as they...
London and the Emergence of a European Art Market, 1780–1820
In the late 1700s, as the events of the French Revolution roiled France, London displaced Paris as the primary hub of international art sales. Within a few decades, a robust and sophisticated art market flourished in London. London and...
Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment
King George III will not stay on the ground. Ever since a crowd in New York City toppled his equestrian statue in 1776, burying some of the parts and melting the rest into bullets, the king has been riding back into American culture,...
Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art
While the connected, international character of today’s art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the...
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820
In the late 18th century, British artists embraced the medium of aquatint for its ability to produce prints with rich and varied tones that became even more stunning with the addition of color. At the same time, the expanding purview...