17th and 18th centuries

Looks at the Rococo art period focusing on the influences, techniques, artists, and more.

Contains critical commentary on the life and art of seventeenth-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, and features forty color plates, as well as black-and-white photographs, that document his work.

An anthology of Puritan writings from seventeenth-century New England, including tracts, journal entries, sermons, and poems.

Presents a collection of writing about America from journals, diaries, political documents, religious sermons, and poetry and includes Native American mythology, European settlement writings, and literature from the time when the United States was found.

Reproductions and text present critical commentary on the artist and his work.

Introduces the Rococo and Neoclassic styles and shows how they relate to the history of the eighteeth century, while showing the influence of the French and Industrial revolutions on art.

A thematic account of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art in Europe, exploring the impact of the concepts of national and supra-national identity upon the visual arts, and examining the debate over whether the art world was dominated by commissions and patrons, or consumerism.

A collection of writings from colonial America, covering a period that ranges from before Columbus through the early nineteenth century with a focus on the American Revolutionary period.