Meredith Martin (Photo © : Joshua Kwassman) “Inspired by a fairy tale in the same literary milieu as Beauty and the Beast (1740), the original ‘Ballet des Porcelaines’ was performed at a country house outside of Paris nearly three centuries ago and has not been seen since. I am thrilled to have worked with choreographer…

A  contribution by           Claire Farago Professor Emerita, University of Colorado Boulder Erin Benay’s Italy by Way of India is a groundbreaking study of complicated networks of cultural exchange in which indigenous artists actively participated. Saint Thomas the Apostle’s martyrdom (c. 52 CE) fostered the manufacture of objects that merge Christian…

Benito Navarrete Prieto’s book ‘Murillo: Persuasion and Aura‘ is awarded with the 2022 Eleanor Tufts Award of the Society for Iberian Global Art. This book examines how Murillo constructed his paintings and the devices he employed to provoke responses in the viewer, both then and now. Murillo has attracted particular attention from historians since the…

The 2021-22 issue of our Harvey Miller  Catalogue is now available Discover our newest & forthcoming Harvey Miller titles in the field of Medieval & Early Modern Art History, Sculpture Studies, Cultural History, Art Theory, Architectural History, Drawings, Manuscript Studies,…. including studies on Andrea Mantegna, Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci, Dante, Raphael, Taddeo Di Bartolo, Murillo,…

A Contribution by: Matthew Collins holds a PhD from Harvard University’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His 2018 dissertation was on the early printed illustrations of Dante’s Commedia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He has taught at Harvard and at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Scuola…

Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XX, 2 Study Heads By Nico Van Hout More Info This book is devoted to a remarkable aspect of Rubens’s painted production. It investigates and catalogues not only works that Ludwig Burchard (1886–1960) gathered into the category of ‘Study Heads’, but also head studies by artists closely connected to Rubens’s…