3rd ed. A one-volume guide to the art of the western world. It offers a balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, drawing and the applied arts from classical times to the 21st century

CASE Ref. G1046.E64 S7 1992

Art meets geography more or less chronologically. The source presents the course of art history with brief topical essays and some 150 maps. Superimposed upon plain base maps (shortlines and rivers only, with too few key maps of the physical landscape) are a great variety of colors and geometric symbols relating to an artistic topic, time, and place. Many of the historical subjects covered are obvious ones, like the medieval pilgrimage routes and the expansion of Alexander the Great's empire. Others are quite novel and demonstrate the keen descriptive power of maps: the travels of individual masters during the Ren-aissance, for instance, and the widespread sources of raw materials in antiquity.

2009 ed. This work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history.

2009 ed. Offers the most current and comprehensive scholarly information on the visual arts of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. Unparalleled in scope and depth, covers a wide range of subject areas, addressing people and subjects specific to all areas of Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe, including the diverse geographical regions that now encompass the modern nations of Germany, Austria, France, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia, Poland, and Russia. Featuring rich and engaging articles on artists, artisans, patrons, painting, architecture, sculpture, cities, centres of production, theory, criticism, and more.

2007 ed. A current and comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period.

The Allgemeines Kunsterlexikon is the world's most contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. It contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1 million artists - more than any other database in the world!

2008. Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward.This title deals with all aspects of materials, techniques conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more.

This text covers aspects of the decorative arts from ancient times throughout the world. It provides coverage of a range of subjects including arms and armour, artists' colonies, ceramics craftsmen, design, furniture, glass, jewelry, metalwork, textiles, workshops, and more.

Combined here in a single volume are religious, classical, and historical themes, figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry that appeared throughout paintings and sculpture in Western art before and after the Renaissance.

Coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from Medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century

More than 1600 alphabetically arranged entries cover painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, printmakers, and contemporary hybrid artists, along with important aspects of the cultural infrastructure.