"This is the second of six books in the series Art and its histories, which form the main texts of an Open University second-level course of the same name"--Pre

This volume on the changing status of the artist in the early modern period draws on case studies to explore and question the notion that the later 15th and 16t

An exploration of the genesis and early development of the genre of self-portraiture in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. The author examines a series of se

Published with six accompanying books in the series 'Art and its Histories'.

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself.