"Through the masterpieces produced by artists ranging from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer, Europe's Renaissance and Baroque period grew into one of the most creative times in world history. A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art presents a comprehensive collection of interdisciplinary essays that address major aspects of European visual arts produced from approximately 1300 to 1700, a period of artistic flourishing...

This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the world. The aim of these lectures is to both prepare new...

Waldemar Januszczak looks at two influential periods in art history. In Baroque, he traces this style from its inception in Rome to its later use in some of England's most famous buildings. In Rococo, he reexamines the critical reaction to the so-called frivolity of this pivotal era.

Vol 3 - The age of splendour focuses on the Baroque era with works from Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Bernini coupled with spectacular new limits of realism and expression that fostered such art as Las Meninas, Marriage a la mode, The conversion of St. Paul, and The lion hunt. Vol 4 - Reason and enlightenment focuses on the Rococo era with an emphasis on pastoral themes and strong classical influence that emerged in the work of Hogarth, Gainsborough,...