This is a concise edition of The Visual Encyclopedia of Art: African Art, also published by Welco...
The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the great variety of styles, materials and ...
This is a concise edition of The Encyclopedia of Visual Art: Egypt (978-1-56649-970-5) also publi...
The art of painting frescos has extraordinarily ancient roots, dating back to civilizations from ...
The immense expanse that opens up between Asia and the coast of America constitutes an ancient an...
The Renaissance, a vast cultural and ideological movement, was the period of intense literary, ar...
The term Romanesque, however imprecise, is a useful key to our understanding of a period of profo...
At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, the Art Nouveau movement int...
The 19th century was a pivotal period in Western history, marked by a revolutionary phase involvi...
The definition of the Baroque age is still subject to debate among critics and historians. In one...