Even in the Western world, which seems completely accustomed to a widespread appearance of risqui?? images, an erotic painting from five hundred years ago can still manage to create a sensation. This
Born Jacopo Comin, Tintoretto (ca. 1519–1594) was one of the great painters of the late Renaissance. This book presents the first biographies of Tintoretto, by Giorgio Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi, and Raffa
Memories of Degas brings together intimate portraits of the artist by two of his earliest and most important champions, the Irish writer George Moore and the German-born English painter Walter Sickert
A thought-provoking examination of beauty using three works of art by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne. As the discipline of art history has moved away from connoisseurship, the notion of beauty has
“A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar.” What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reade
Issues in the Conservation of Photographs is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In seventy-two essential texts fro
What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? What is a pentimento?These terms - and more than one hundred others - are explained in Looking at Paintings. First published in 1992, Looking
With the advent of digital imaging, the era of traditional color photography is coming to an end. Yet more than 150 years after the invention of color photography, museums, archives, and personal coll
Myne has finally started to adjust to her new life... but once a bookworm, always a bookworm. As winter sets in, there are historical methodologies to try: papyrus, clay tablets... anything that can h
