is one of the painter's significant contributions to art history

Talbot's improved process—the calotype—was introduced in 1840

Many of the great individual titles of the past two millennia are discussed as well as the range of book types and formats that have emerged in the last few hundred years

a key voice of German Romanticism

Detlef Mertins is an architect

Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 blake is one of the painter'sEdited by Gail Feigenbaum and Sybille Ebert Schifferer When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as they move from sacred spaces to secular collections. Religious art embodies a complicated amalgam of the aesthetic and the numinous, and the fourteen essays in this volume explore how the admixture changesoften radicallywith changes of function, setting, audience, and the passage of