American paintings of the eighteenth century

While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book ...

Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera a...

Abstract The late eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas on the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire, both to the east and to the s...

Abstract This study provides a general introduction to the sources of the plainchant revival in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. Part I examines the ei...

Abstract Although eighteenth-century Viennese keyboard music, especially by such composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, is among the most popular ever written...

Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American “romancers”...

Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture....

Abstract In 1720s London, a well-known band of young ruffians gave themselves crescent tattoos and adorned turbans in honour of their so-called 'mohamattan [Muslim]'...