Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the

"An indispensable addition to the literature, this informative publication is not only one of very few books available in English on the subject, but it also re

The book examines military paintings in France in the 1850s and 1860s, when the genre experienced a new lease of life. It recreates the paintings’ art-histori

In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her ey