Architecture of Knowledge Hawksmoor and Oxford By Eleonora Pistis Awarded with the 2025 Berger Prize (The Walpole Society) This annual prize  celebrates brilliant writing and scholarship about the arts and architecture of the United Kingdom. Awarded since 2002, the prize is offered by The Walpole Society through the generosity and inspiration of the Berger Collection…

  Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio’s Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards focuses on enormous amounts of sculptures moved from Italy to Spain from ca. 1500-1750. An analysis of an important body of unpublished archival documentation regarding the practical issues involved in making and transporting sculpture, provide the basis for…

Discover all new & forthcoming publications from Harvey Miller, scheduled for Spring 2025, with this new catalogue. Download (pdf)  

    Taddeo di Bartolo Siena’s Painter in the Early Quattrocento By Gail E. Solberg Taddeo di Bartolo, Siena’s premier painter in the years around 1400, is the focus of a cultural history of a great Italian school in an understudied period. His patrons commissioned important fresco cycles and the most impressive polyptychs of the…

Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of the few remaining examples of the once more prevalent urbanized bridge type. Drawing from early Florentine chronicles and previously unpublished archival documents, The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic…

TASTE AND THE ANTIQUE The Lure of Classical Sculpture: 1500-1900 Revised and Amplified Edition By Nicholas Penny and Francis Haskell † Edited and revised by Adriano Aymonino and Eloisa Dodero For several hundred years, until about 1900, a limited number of antique sculptures were as much admired as are the Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s Birth of…