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Picturing art history : the rise of the illustrated history of art in the eighteenth century / by Vermeulen, Ingrid R.

East Asian aesthetics and the space of painting in eighteenth-century Europe by Tillerot, Isabelle

Table of Contents: “…The places of painting -- Decor and time -- The trajectory of the arabesque -- Asian motifs in European decoration -- The East Asian idea of taste -- Another way of representing the world -- Conclusion : Asian caprice, or making and island of the picture.…”

The complete works of William Hogarth : in a series of one hundred and fifty superb engravings on steel, from the original pictures / by Hogarth, William, 1697-1764

Enlightenment : discovering the world in the eighteenth century

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Painting the cannon's roar : music, the visual arts, and the rise of an attentive public in the age of Haydn, c.1750 to c1810 by Tolley, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…A visual education: Haydn as collector ; A popular collection ; Looking and listening in London ; 'Picture after picture': The creation and The seasons ; Creating waves ; 'Pictures for the ear' ; Motion and the dynamics of light ; Observing nature ; Moving pictures -- 'Last judgement'. …”
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The place of many moods : Udaipur's painted lands and India's eighteenth century by Khera, Dipti

Table of Contents: “…Medium of moods and picturing of place -- Enlarging painted places and imagining moods anew -- Passionate monsoons and monumental paintings -- Worlds of pleasure and politics of connoisseurship -- Modes of knowing and skills of drawings -- Charismatic places and colonial spaces -- Memorializing moods and recovering histories.…”

A material world : culture, society, and the life of things in early Anglo-America

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : culture, society, and the material world / Margaretta Markle Lovell -- Picturing Penn : portraits, public memory, and the political culture of late colonial Pennsylvania / George W. …”

Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790 : Pinxit Mexici / edited by Ilona Katzew

Treasures of a Polish king : Stanislaus Augustus as patron and collector.