The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the a

This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as patronized artists over the course of the eighteenth century.

The age of enlightenment and revolution was a deeply complex period of dramatic ruptures and epistemic shifts. This has long been acknowledged by academics and

"Explores the intersections between monarchy, gender, and art through an investigation of the visual and architectural culture of the eighteenth-century Habsbur

"This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experiences occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century.