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This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its mixed reception by contemporaries. The examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art. Interest in, and understanding of, the Counter-Reformation has been growing and deepening in recent years.

This 1998 book examines one of the most influential paintings of the Italian Renaissance. It considers the Trinity in its historical and spiritual contexts, and especially emphasises the extraordinary features of the painting, such as its system of spatial illusionism.

This book is about the creation of an acknowledged masterpiece and its mixed reception by contemporaries. The examination of the fresco will be of interest to historians, historians of religion and of art. Interest in, and understanding of, the Counter-Reformation has been growing and deepening in recent years.

This collection of essays by seven leading Rembrandt scholars examines Bathsheba Reading King David's Letter from perspectives ranging from changing perceptions of female beauty and the nude, technical analysis, and biographical and psychological analysis of the artist, the subject, and the viewer.

Velazquez's Las Meninas offers a survey of the responses to the painting in the nineteenth century, when Velazquez's fame outside Spain peaked, as well as introductions to the interpretations of Las Meninas by twentieth-century art historians, critics, philosophers, and art theorists. This book was first published in 2003.

Velazquez's Las Meninas offers a survey of the responses to the painting in the nineteenth century, when Velazquez's fame outside Spain peaked, as well as introductions to the interpretations of Las Meninas by twentieth-century art historians, critics, philosophers, and art theorists. This book was first published in 2003.

Contributors to this volume consider this important twentieth century work from a variety of methodological and topical perspectives, including psychoanalytical, feminist, historical, and post-colonial. The combined analysis suggests the painting's power and significance to art history as a whole and debates over Primitivism, sexuality, and stylistic change.

Edouard Manet's controversial painting 'Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe' is one of the best-known images in French art. These essays, by the top experts in the field, offer six different readings of the painting, incorporating close examinations of its radical style and novel subject.

Contributors to this volume consider this important twentieth century work from a variety of methodological and topical perspectives, including psychoanalytical, feminist, historical, and post-colonial. The combined analysis suggests the painting's power and significance to art history as a whole and debates over Primitivism, sexuality, and stylistic change.

This 1998 book examines one of the most influential paintings of the Italian Renaissance. It considers the Trinity in its historical and spiritual contexts, and especially emphasises the extraordinary features of the painting, such as its system of spatial illusionism.