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Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) is one of the most beloved artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Vermeer's tranquil and meticulously painted interiors, of such subjects as women writing or reading love letters, and men and women drinking together or playing musical instruments, are acutely observed and have (...)

Von der Idee, ein Baiern aller Stamme zu formen, war Ludwig I. schon als Kronprinz beseelt, einer grosseren deutschen Nation ein Monument zu errichten, fuhrte zur Errichtung der Befreiungshalle auf dem Michelsberg in Kelheim, sudwestlich von Regensburg. Zum 150-jahrigen Jubilaum der Befreiungshalle (...)

Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher this pioneering study uncovers an (...)

Este segundo volumen de la edición de FAUSTO ilustrada por Miquel Barceló, corresponde a la segunda parte de la obra de Goethe e incluye 72 acuarelas de Miquel Barceló realizadas expresamente para este volumen. Con él culmina otra obra maestra del pintor mallorquín.

El artista británico Lucian Freud, disfrutó de una carrera que duró más de siete décadas. Trabajó casi hasta el día de su muerte, cuando dejó sin terminar un retrato de su amigo y asistente de estudio David Dawson.Ahora disponible por primera vez en una edición elegantemente combinada, esta (...)

Il volume non è solamente il catalogo di una raccolta di opere d'arte ma l'occasione per ripercorrere la storia di Franco Maria Ricci e della sua collezione, in gran parte oggi esposta presso il Labirinto della Masone. Ad alcuni testi introduttivi che inquadrano la figura di Franco Maria Ricci come (...)

The catalogue accompanying the blockbuster exhibition at The National Gallery, London, which The Guardian has called 'epochal' and 'superbly curated'Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 1654 or later) is the most celebrated woman artist of the baroque period in Italy. Her career spanned more than 40 years, (...)