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

Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion