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Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) is best known as a painter of still life subjects beautifully executed in tempera. Less well known are his haunting views of bomb-sites in London after World War II. This revealing, fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first survey exhibition on the artist since (...)

George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature' presents the first significant overview of Stubbs's work in Britain for more than 30 years and brings together 80 paintings, drawings and publications from the National Gallery's Whistlejacket to pieces never previously seen in public.Stubbs produced (...)

Une soixantaine d'oeuvres issues de collections publiques et privées, qui fait la part belle aux portraits bretons et polynésiens, aux autoportraits mais aussi aux effigies inanimées. L'artiste dote ses modèles d'attributs particuliers ou les intègre dans des mises en scène évocatrices, en leur (...)

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's (...)

Desde sus primeras manifestaciones en las catacumbas de Roma y hasta nuestros días, los relatos evangélicos han sido una de las principales fuentes de inspiración para la historia del arte occidental y su conocimiento es indispensable para entender dos milenios de arte, incluyendo gran parte del (...)

El tesoro de los Quimbayas es uno de los conjuntos emblemáticos del Museo de América. Los proyectos de investigación contemplan tanto el análisis arqueometalúrgico como la investigación sobre otros múltiples aspectos: histórico, iconográfico, cronológico, sonoro, biológico, químico, etc. para (...)

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way (...)