Covering 250 years of design tools and technologies, this book reveals how architects have produced the drawings, models, renderings and animations which show us the promise of what might be built.

Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism Six art historians examine the development of the artist's studio as a place of scholarly reflection.

Although this is essentially a study of the instruments themselves, this selection of instruments has been chosen to allow the many and varied aspects that they can reveal of a wider world of relationships between the makers of instruments ...

This book will be useful as a main text in history of art education courses, as a supplemental text in courses in art education methods and history of education, and as a valuable resource for students, professors, and researchers. “The ...

Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during ...

"Taking significant words and concepts used by Michelangelo and his contemporaries to discuss his art--among them fantasia, difficultà, facilità, teribilità, ordine, grazia, and novità--David Summers traces their evolution from ...

Originally published in 1940, this book charts the origins and evolution of academies of art from the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century.