This book analyses text, image and manuscript layout to deepen our understanding of the different ways in which Alfonso is presented as a learned king in the manuscripts he commissioned, and reassesses the number of manuscripts copied for him.
This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden in 2016.
This collection of essays showcases extraordinary objects held by Australian collections, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research.
In the early 1650s Ferdinand Bol produced a series of wall-covering paintings. This 'painted chamber' is a unique example of a branch of the art of painting which was extremely popular in the seventeenth century, although hardly any of it now remains. Bol's ensemble has always been surrounded by mysteries. Who was the initial owner, what was the re