Art

Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts

Mrs. Jameson

The book is a scholarly survey of Marian iconography, assembled after the death of Mrs.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The September 1864 issue of The Atlantic Monthly gathers a series of essays, reviews, and literary sketches…

The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Luigi Lanzi

The work is a scholarly survey of Italian painting, focusing on the Venetian school from its earliest traces…

U.S. copyright renewals: Artwork 1965-1977

Library of Congress. Copyright Office

This volume is a systematic register compiled by the United States Copyright Office that lists artworks,…

Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4

Wolfgang Menzel

Wolfgang Menzel’s Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 is a sweeping survey of German cultural history,…

Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris

Orlo Williams

The work is a nonfiction study that opens with a sweeping meditation on the power of language, especially the…

"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 1 of 3)

Dr. Doran

The work is a scholarly survey of English theatrical history, presented as the first volume of a three‑part…

An Autobiography

Elizabeth Butler

This work is the autobiographical memoir of Elizabeth Butler, the celebrated Victorian painter of battle…

The Unknown Masterpiece 1845

Honoré de Balzac

The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 is a biographical fiction that places a fledgling artist in the bustling…

Turner's Sketches and Drawings

A. J. Finberg

The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The work is a scholarly treatise that maps the systematic relationship between the various art‑forms and…

The Western Front Drawings by Muirhead Bone

The work is a wartime visual record, a collection of Muirhead Bone’s drawings that chronicle the British…

The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America

Adney, Tappan; Chapelle, Howard Irving

The work is a scholarly monograph issued as number 230 of the United States National Museum Bulletin series,…

The history of the harlequinade, volume 2 (of 2)

Maurice Sand

Maurice Sand’s second volume of The History of the Harlequinade is a scholarly survey that begins by tracing…

Reminiscences of the South Seas

John La Farge

John La Farge’s “Reminiscences of the South Seas” is a travel memoir that blends a continuous narrative with…

Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting…

Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Francis Hobart Herrick

The work is a scholarly biography that traces the life of John James Audubon through a painstaking…

Zen Culture

Thomas Hoover

Thomas Hoover’s Zen Culture is a nonfiction survey that maps the development of Zen from its Indian origins…

Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

Alan St. H. Brock

The work is a comprehensive treatise on the art and history of fireworks, written by Alan St. H.

How to Study Architecture

Charles H. Caffin

Charles H. Caffin’s How to Study Architecture is a scholarly survey that treats the history of building as a…

Gothic Architecture

Édouard Corroyer

The book is a scholarly handbook on the development of Gothic architecture, presented in a translation…

The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers

Sir W. H. St. John (William Henry St. John) Hope

Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers is a practical handbook that seeks to unite the theory of heraldic art…

Leonardo Da Vinci

Maurice W. Brockwell

The work is a scholarly biography of Leonardo da Vinci, written by Maurice W. Brockwell.