Product Description: Gods and Heroes in Art aims to help museum patrons and art lovers recognize the legendary characters of classical antiquity in art. The characters are each described in entries summarizing their distinctive stories, their special attributes, and the ways in which artists have depicted them...read more

Product Description: From Agatha to Zeno, Francis of Assisi to Mary Magdalene, Saints in Arti presents the characteristic features of more than one hundred saints often encountered in sacred Western art. Each saint is introduced by a practical list of his or her unique attributes...read more

Product Description: One Thousand Years of Painting is an easy-to-follow 'map' that will enable readers to follow the itineraries of the illustrations and their various protagonists, and the creation of the works that mark our visual culture. Through a completely novel presentation, based on the meshing of historical development and geographical dynamics, this volume presents around 800 European and American paintings...read more

Product Description: Rome continues to be the monumental expression of a legend. It is the eternal city where all roads of the ancient world converged, and through the millennia has been the model for the very concept of a universal empire. Through art, architecture, and urban planning, the empire expanded with an exceptional synthesis of technology, politics, law, and propaganda, conquering Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Art in Venice is a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive collection of the painting, architecture, sculpture, mosaic, glass, and gold work of one of the world's most romantic, beautiful, and historically rich cities. The book is organized in a straightforward chronological fashion: divided into major periods of Venetian history, each section including historical and cultural information, as well as the exact location of each artwork and biographies of each of the artists discussed...read more

Product Description: The Rizzoli Quadrifolio art series combines the most popular artists with authoritative text and a fresh, unique format destined to appeal to children and adults alike. Featuring sixteen pages that open up to four times the original size, this series allows the reader to delve into details of individual paintings or see a horizontal development in a fresco...read more

Reproduces five hundred paintings by over ninety artists from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, arranged chronologically and by country, to provide a historical overview of the European Renaissance.

Collects masterpieces created by some of the most well-known Baroque artists including Paul Rubens, El Greco, and Jan Vermeer

Product Description: This magnificent volume of full-color reproductions shows world-famous artworks and offers a survey of the development of modern painting. It opens with the stark realism of Francisco Goya, then presents paintings from the 19th-century impressionist revolution--continuing on to cubism, surrealism, dada, and abstract expressionism...read more