The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed a change in the perception of the arts and of p...

In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe.

Essays examining the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy.

One of the issues underlying current debates between practitioners of art history, visual culture...

The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, bot...

First published in 2002, Germain Boffrand's Livre d'Architecture is one of the most original book...

Winckelmanns Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums hat im 18. Jahrhundert die Geschichtsschreibung ü...

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by archit...

Caroline van Eck is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Leiden University, where she...

This volume explores the creation and reception of Piranesi's three colossal neoclassical candela...

Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are livi...