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Renaissance/Baroque Art

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.

Ago, Renata. Gusto for Things: A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome. Trans. Bradford Bouley, Corey Tazzara, and Paula Findlen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 392 pp.; 38 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780226010571)

Ainsworth, Maryan W., and Joshua P. Waterman. German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. 384 pp.; 315 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300148978)

Auwera, Joost Vander, and Irène Schaudies, eds. Jordaens and the Antique. Exh. cat. Brussels, Belgium: Mercatorfonds, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, 2012. 320 pp.; 229 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300188714)

Bakker, Boudewijn. Landscape and Religion: From Van Eyck to Rembrandt. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 394 pp.; 31 color ills.; 86 b/w ills. Cloth $134.95 (9781409404866)

Bohn, Babette, and James M. Saslow, eds. A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art. Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 648 pp.; Several b/w ills. Cloth $195.00 (9781444337266)

Bonazza, Natalino, Isabella di Lenardo, and Gianmario Guidarelli, eds. La chiesa di San Bartolomeo e la comunità tedesca a Venezia. Venice: Marcianum Press, 2013. 392 pp. €33.15 (9788865121467)

Bonfait, Olivier. Après Caravage: Une peinture caravagesque. Paris: Editions Hazan, 2012. 176 pp.; 50 ills. €19.00 (9782754106306)

Bray, Xavier. Murillo: At Dulwich Picture Gallery. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2013. 64 pp. Paper £11.99 (9781781300084)

Bubenik, Andrea. Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528–1700. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 282 pp.; 13 color ills.; 81 b/w ills. Cloth $104.95 (9781409438472)

Burke, Jill, ed. Rethinking the High Renaissance: The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 402 pp.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9781409425588)

Campbell, Stephen J., and Michael W. Cole. Italian Renaissance Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc., 2011. 696 pp.; 703 color ills.; 817 ills. Paper $112.50 (9780500289433)

Clayton, Martin, and Ron Philo. Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist. Exh. cat. London: Royal Collection Publications, 2012. 256 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $25.00 (9781905686391)

Cojannot, Alexandre. Louis Le Vau: Et Les Nouvelles Ambitions de l'Architecture Française 1612–1654. Paris, France: Éditions Picard, 2012. 368 pp.; 224 ills. Cloth €67.00 (9782708409351)

Cooper, Tarnya. Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. 264 pp.; 100 color ills.; 115 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780300162790)

Cornelison, Sally J. Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012. 386 pp.; 13 color ills.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $119.95 (9780754667148)

Currie, Christina, and Dominique Allart. The Brueg(H)el Phenomenon: Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger with a Special Focus on Technique and Copying Practice. Scientia Artis (SCAR 8). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012. 1062 pp. Cloth €160.00 (9782930054148)

de Jong, Jan L. The Power and the Glorification: Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2013. 208 pp.; 31 color ills.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $79.95 (9780271050799)

Delbeke, Maarten. The Art of Religion: Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini's Rome. Histories of Vision. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 258 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9780754634850)

Desmas, Anne-Lise. Le ciseau et la tiare: Les sculpteurs dans la Rome de Benoît XIII, Clément XII et Benoît XIV (1724–1758). Collection de l'École française de Rome 463. Rome: École française de Rome, 2012. 471 pp. Paper €50.00 (9782728309405)

Dickerson III, C. D., Anthony Sigel, and Ian Wardropper. Bernini: Sculpting in Clay. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. 432 pp.; 437 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300185003)

Dunbar, Burton L., Robert Munman, and Edward J. Olszewski. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections (HMCDMC 2). Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2013. 141 pp.; 7 color ills.; 141 b/w ills. Cloth €110.00 (9781905375110)

Falkenburg, Reindert. The Land of Unlikeness: Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights. Zwolle, Netherlands: W Books, 2012. 320 pp.; 241 ills. Cloth €69.95 (9789040077678)

Forcellino, Antonio. Raphael: A Passionate Life. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2012. 260 pp. Cloth $29.95 (9780745644110)

Galletti, Sara. Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis 1611–1631. De Architectura. Paris, France: Éditions Picard, 2012. 294 pp.; 6 color ills.; 165 b/w ills. Paper €53.00 (9782708409354)

Gillgren, Peter, and Mårten Snickare, eds. Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 280 pp.; 8 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9781409420996)

Gregory, Sharon, and Sally Anne Hickson, eds. Inganno - The Art of Deception: Imitation, Reception, and Deceit in Early Modern Art. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012. 216 pp.; 21 b/w ills. Cloth $104.95 (9781409431497)

Gregory, Sharon. Vasari and the Renaissance Print. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 460 pp.; 12 color ills.; 140 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9781409429265)

Guerzoni, Guido. Apollo & Vulcan: The Art Markets in Italy, 1400–1700. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2011. 384 pp. Cloth $54.95 (9781611860061)

Harbison, Craig. The Art of the Northern Renaissance. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2012. 176 pp.; 121 ills. Paper $19.95 (9781780670270)

Henry, Tom. The Life and Art of Luca Signorelli. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 472 pp.; 100 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780300179262)

Hopkins, Andrew. Baldassare Longhena and Venetian Baroque Architecture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. 372 pp.; 62 color ills.; 305 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780300181098)

Jacobs, Lynn F. Opening Doors: The Early Netherlandish Triptych Reinterpreted. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2013. 328 pp.; 40 color ills.; 140 b/w ills. Cloth $94.95 (9780271048406)

Jacoby, Joachim, and Martin Sonnabend, eds. Raphael: Drawings. Exh. cat. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2013. 240 pp.; 145 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9783777458113)

Jecmen, Gregory. Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings 1475–1540. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, Washington and Lund Humphries, 2012. 120 pp.; 48 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781848221222)

Kapic, Kelly M., and Mark Jones, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen's Theology. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2012. 352 pp. Cloth $149.95 (9781409434887)

Konečný, Lubomír, and Štěpán Vácha, eds. Hans von Aachen in Context: Proceedings of the International Conference, Prague 22–25 September 2010. Prague: Artefactum, 2013. 280 pp.; 194 ills. Paper (9788086890401)

Langdon, Helen. Caravaggio's Cardsharps: Trickery and Illusion. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 2013. 80 pp.; 65 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Paper $16.95 (9780300185102)

Lavin, Irving. Visible Spirit: The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Vol. III: Bernini at St. Peter's; The Pilgrimage. London: Pindar Press, 2013. 386 pp.; 272 color ills. Cloth £150.00 (9781904597469)

Lejeune, Maud. Pourtraits Divers de Jean de Tournes: Édition critique et fac-similé du tirage de 1556 par Maud Lejeune. Cahiers d'Humanisme de Renaissance, Vol. 105. Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 2012. 30 b/w ills. $45.60 (9782600015547)

Lester, Toby. Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image. New York: Free Press, 2012. 304 pp.; 9 color ills.; 53 b/w ills. Paper $26.99 (9781439189238)

Mann, Judith W., and Babette Bohn. Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line. Exh. cat. St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2012. 376 pp.; 214 color ills.; 46 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300174779)

Marandel, J. Patrice, ed. Caravaggio and His Legacy. Exh. cat. Los Angeles and Munich: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Prestel Verlag, 2012. 174 pp.; 180 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9783791352305)

Martens, Maximiliaan, and Annick Born. Van Eyck in Detail. Antwerp: Ludion, 2013. 256 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781419707520)

Mazzotta, Antonio. Titian: A Fresh Look at Nature. Exh. cat. London: National Gallery Company, 2012. 88 pp.; 75 color ills. Paper $20.00 (9781857095449)

McCall, Timothy, Sean Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza, eds. Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. Early Modern Studies 11. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2013. 300 pp.; 73 ills. Paper $49.95 (9781612480923)

McDonald, Mark P. Renaissance to Goya. Exh. cat. London, UK: British Museum and Lund Humphries, 2012. 320 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $80.00 (9781848221185)

McHam, Sarah Blake. Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 464 pp.; 120 color ills.; 105 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300186031)

Melion, Walter, Ralph Dekoninck, and Agnes Guiderdoni-Bruslé, eds. Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500–1700. Proteus 4, Studies in Early Modern Identity Formation. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012. 479 pp.; 155 b/w ills. Cloth $135.00 (9782503535838)

Metzger Habel, Dorothy. "When All of Rome Was Under Construction": The Building Process in Baroque Rome. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. 320 pp.; 119 color ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780271055732)

Morel, Phillipe, ed. Le miroir et l’espace du prince dans l’art italien de la Renaissance. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes and Presses Universitaires de François-Rabelais, 2012. 380 pp.; Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper €30.00 (9782753522183)

Moskowitz, Anita. Forging Authenticity: Giovanni Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Florence. Arte e archeologia. Studi e documenti, vol. 32. Florence, Italy: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2013. 174 pp.; 91 ills. Cloth €80.00 (9788822261717)

Motture, Peta, Emma Jones, and Dimitrios Zikos, eds. Carvings, Casts and Collectors: The Art of Renaissance. London: V&A Publishing, 2013. 384 pp.; 170 color ills. Cloth £30.00 (9781851776405)

Paleotti, Gabriele, and William McCuaig. Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 2013. 369 pp. Paper $60.00 (9781606061169)

Paolozzi Strozzi, Beatrice, and Marc Bormand, eds. The Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400–60. Exh. cat. Florence, Italy: Mandragora, 2013. 552 pp. Cloth €50.00 (9788874611867)

Partridge, Loren. The Renaissance in Rome. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2012. 184 pp.; 118 ills. $19.95 (9781780670294)

Pestilli, Livio. Paolo de Matteis: Neapolitan Painting and Cultural History in Baroque Europe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 502 pp.; 108 color ills.; 112 b/w ills. Cloth $112.46 (9781409446200)

Portús, Javier. Diego Velázaquez: The Early Court Portraits. Exh. cat. The Prado at the Meadows, Volume 3. Dallas, TX: Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University and Museo Nacional del Prado, 2012. 208 pp.; 79 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780578104898)

Quinlan-McGrath, Mary. Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 304 pp.; 14 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780226922843)

Ribouillault, Denis. Rome en ses jardins: Paysage et pouvoir au XVIe siècle. L'Art et l'Essai. Paris: Le comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques and Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2013. 400 pp. Paper €38.00 (9782735507948)

Rijser, David. Raphael's Poetics: Art and Poetry in High Renaissance Rome. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. 512 pp.; 40 color ills. Paper $47.50 (9789089643421)

Roberts, Sean. Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 336 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780674066489)

Ruprecht Jr., Louis A. Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 352 pp.; 28 ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780230110694)

Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés, María Dolores, and Scott Wilcox, eds. The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and Real Academia de Belles Artes de San Fernando, 2012. 392 pp.; 350 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300176056)

Schlitt, Melinda, ed. Gifts in Return: Essays in Honour of Charles Dempsey. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 485 pp.; 52 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. $29.50 (9780772721303)

Schrader, Stephanie, ed. Looking East: Rubens's Encounter with Asia. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013. 128 pp.; 47 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. P $20.00 (9781606061312)

Sciacca, Christine, ed. Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300–1350. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 448 pp.; 240 color ills. 240 $65.00 (9781606061268)

Seaman, Natasha T. The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen: Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 194 pp.; 4 color ills.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9781409434955)

Smith, Timothy B., and Judith B. Steinhoff, eds. Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 248 pp.; 63 b/w ills. Cloth $89.96 (9781409400660)

Stapleford, Richard, ed. Lorenzo de' Medici at Home: The Inventory of the Palazzo Medici in 1492. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2013. 232 pp.; 34 b/w ills. Cloth $79.95 (9780271056418)

Terry-Fritsch, Allie, and Erin Felicia Labbie, eds. Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Visual Culture in Early Modernity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 298 pp.; 46 b/w ills. Cloth $104.95 ( 9781409442868)

Testa, Judith. An Art Lover's Guide to Florence. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. 306 pp.; 35 ills. Paper $22.50 (9780875806808)

Tiffany, Tanya J. Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2013. 256 pp.; 20 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $79.95 (9780271053790)

Tittler, Robert. The face of the city: Civic portraiture and civic identity in early modern England. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013. 224 pp.; Few b/w ills. $13.99 (9780719089077)

Tomlinson, Janis. From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain 1561–1828. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2012. 176 pp.; 116 ills. Paper £12.95 (9781780670287)

Van Duzer, Chet. Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. London: British Library, 2013. 144 pp.; 115 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780712358903)

Vitali, Samuel. Romulus in Bologna: Die Fresken der Caracci im Palazzo Magnani. Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 30. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2012. 344 pp.; 16 color ills.; 216 b/w ills. Cloth €98.00 (9783777442914)

Wahrman, Dror. Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Taler of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 288 pp.; 74 ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780199738861)

Waiboer, Adriaan E. Gabriel Metsu: Life and Work: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press and National Gallery of Ireland, 2012. 408 pp.; 78 color ills.; 170 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300170481)

Warwick, Genevieve. Bernini: Art as Theatre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 224 pp.; 24 color ills.; 42 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300187069)

Weller, Dennis P., George S. Keyes, Tom Rassieur, and Jon L. Seydl. Rembrandt in America: Collecting and Connoisseurship. Exh. cat. New York: Skira Rizzoli in association with Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, and North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012. 224 pp.; 137 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780847836857)

Wisch, Barbara, and Nerida Newbigin. Acting on Faith: The Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2013. 512 pp.; 269 color ills. C $100.00 (9780916101749)

Zafran, Eric M. Masters of French Painting: 1290–1920. Exh. cat. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and D Giles Limited, 2012. 304 pp.; 160 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781904832935)

Zikos, Dimitrios, ed. Marks of Identity: New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Italian Sculpture. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Gutenberg Periscope Publishing, 2012. 255 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $18.50 (9781934772874)