Offers information on the French painter Nicolas de Largilliere (1656-1746), presented as part of the WebMuseum, Paris Web site of Nicolas Pioch. Includes a biographical sketch of Largilliere and contains an image of his painting entitled "La Belle Strasbourgeoise."

Features information on French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), considered to be one of the central figures of Neoclassicism. Provides a biographical sketch of David. Offers images, titles, descriptions, and location information for some of his paintings. Notes that, between 1802 and 1807, David painted a series of pictures glorifying the exploits of Napoleon, among them the "Coronation of Napoleon" (Louvre, 1805-1807).

This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the "privilegio" and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.

Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today.

This volume brings formal coherence to the overwhelming mass of prints published in 16th century Rome. The aim is to provide an overview of who was publishing what prints and when over the course of the period.

"A large and sumptuous tribute to the 17th century Spanish court portraitist who must have captured the most imposing collection of Hapsburg noses and jaws ever depicted by one mortal. The detailed, scholarly, entertaining text follows the development of Velazquez' artistry from the early genre works to the final amazing studies in texture and spatial relationships."--Kirkus Review.