Art

Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.

John Burnet

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly catalogue that combines a concise biography of Rembrandt…

A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Perrot, Georges; Chipiez, Charles

The volume is a scholarly survey of Egyptian art that proceeds methodically through architecture, sculpture,…

S. Hurok Presents; A Memoir of the Dance World

Sol Hurok

This book is a memoir by Sol Hurok, the impresario who famously “brought ballet to America and America to the…

A Treatise on Painting

da Vinci Leonardo

This work is a facsimile of the 1802 London edition of Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting, presented…

The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3),

John Ruskin

The work is John Ruskin’s second volume of The Stones of Venice, a scholarly survey of the city’s…

Vasari on technique: Being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Prefixed to the lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects

Giorgio Vasari

Vasari on Technique is a scholarly treatise that opens with a meticulous inventory of stone types, porphyry,…

Salt mines and castles: The discovery and restitution of looted European art

Thomas Carr Howe

Thomas Carr Howe’s Salt Mines and Castles is a first‑person account of the U.S.

Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands.

James Parton

The work is a scholarly survey of caricature and comic art from antiquity to the late nineteenth‑century,…

Celtic art in Pagan and Christian times

J. Romilly Allen

This volume is a scholarly survey of Celtic visual culture from its pagan roots through its Christian…

History of Lace

Mrs. Bury Palliser

The work is a comprehensive survey of lace and its antecedents, presented as a revised and expanded edition…

Early Woodcut Initials Containing over Thirteen Hundred Reproductions of Ornamental Letters of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Oscar Jennings

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of ornamental initials from the Roman era through the early…

A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Perrot, Georges; Chipiez, Charles

The Book of the Pearl The history, art, science, and industry of the queen of gems

Kunz, George Frederick; Stevenson, Charles Hugh

The Book of the Pearl is a monumental reference that treats the gem‑queen from every conceivable angle,…

The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners

John Ruskin

John Ruskin’s The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners is a practical manual rather than a…

The floral symbolism of the great masters

Elizabeth Haig

The work is a scholarly survey of how Christian art has employed botanical imagery to convey theological…

The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (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 from the early revival of the fine arts through the…

Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings

John H. Huddilston

The work is a scholarly survey that brings together Greek vase‑painting and the extant tragedies of…

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts

John Addington Symonds

The work is a scholarly survey of Italian Renaissance art, written by John Addington Symonds in the late…

The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century

Richard Muther

Richard Muther’s The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 is a scholarly survey that continues his…

Pompeii, Its Life and Art

August Mau

August Mau’s Pompeii, Its Life and Art is a scholarly survey of the Campanian city, first issued in English…

Laocoon: An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

This work is Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “Laocoon,” an essay that probes the boundaries between painting and…

American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples

Charles Dexter Allen

The book is a scholarly guide to American book‑plates, written by Charles Dexter Allen in 1894.

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater

The book is a scholarly study that treats the Renaissance as a broad cultural movement rather than a narrow…

The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain

Jennie J. Young

The book is a scholarly compendium that seeks to answer the principal questions surrounding the history and…