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El presente libro es el resultado de una sistemática investigación del nacimiento y la evolución de las imágenes negras de la Virgen.La siderurgia en la Edad del Hierro produjo pequeñas piezas a partir de negras escorias de fayalita. Estas eran plásticas y moldeables y permitieron la conformación (...)

As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in the history of art. From Egyptian tomb paintings and battle scenes on Greek vases by anonymous artists, to depictions of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus by the great (...)

Malaguzzi's work describes the significance of food and feasts through the ages and discusses how artists have created allegories of gluttony and odes to the sense of taste, using, for example, artfully positioned fruits and vegetables in the still-life genre in painting.

Throughout the Middle Ages, sacred Christian art had two objectives: to express veneration for God and to provide illustrative lessons on the Christian faith to a largely illiterate population. Continuing in the spirit of the other books in this series, Old Testament Figures in Art compiles entries (...)

"Il sarto" rappresenta il manifesto della ritrattistica di Giovan Battista Moroni (1520/1524-1579), artista lombardo che ha sempre prediletto i volti della gente comune ai grandi protagonisti della storia. L'opera è una testimonianza commovente della capacità del pittore di restituire con (...)