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Una straordinaria raccolta di quattrocento opere d'arte realizzate da oltre centoventi artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo, dalla fine del Settecento ai giorni nostri, offre l'occasione per indagare il tema del colore.Dal rosso di Lucio Fontana al blu di Yves Klein, il volume ripercorre (...)

Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being the best in painting, Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. (...)

Cai Guo-Qiang (Quanzhou, provincia de Fujian, China, 1957) es uno de los artistas de mayor renombre internacional, un atrevido creador de novedosas formas artísticas (pintura con pólvora, pirotecnia e instalaciones) que siguen ampliando el concepto de experiencia cultural. Cai Guo-Qiang ha (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)