By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been surveyed by an unprecedented series of major works on literature, music, and painting of which the autho

"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.

Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalized world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art and decor

Recent interest in the economic aspects of the history of art have taken traditional studies into new areas of enquiry. Going well beyond provenances or prices