During Holland's Golden Age in the 1700's, as trade prospered, painters helped to bring about the world's first popular art movement. The scenes in this book ar

In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himsel

In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, b

American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jack

Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that