art

A history of women artists, focusing on the ways in which women have succeeded and prospered in the traditionally male field from 1500 through the 1990s.

Presents illustrated overviews of the architecture, sculpture, and painting of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, arranged by period; also includes a glossary and a bibliography.

Critical history of Pop Art that unravels the sequence of events associated with the evolution of Pop in the U.S. and Europe.

Traces the history of art from ancient times through the twentieth century.

Presents an exploration and assessment of the Art Deco style of the 1920s and 1930s as seen in American architecture, sculpture, furniture, textiles, ceramics, silver, graphic arts, and jewelry.

Examines how abstract art originated and evolved, and also places it in its broad historical and cultural context.

Presents color reproductions of over four hundred works of art from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring objects in many media from numerous periods; and includes descriptive captions, as well as informative essays.

An introduction to the work of Michelangelo, discussing the artist's career from his early days in Rome and Florence, through his work under the patronage of the church and his later years.

Sixteenth-century painter and architect Giorgio Vasari's classic work of biography, which presents accounts of more than two hundred painters, sculptors, and architects of the Italian Renaissance in generally chronological order from thirteenth-century painter Giovanni Cimabue to Vasari himself. Includes volume indexes of names.