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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.

Gods and Heroes in Art aims to help museum patrons and art lovers recognize the legendary characters of classical antiquity in art. The characters are each described in entries summarizing their distinctive stories, their special attributes, and the ways in which artists have depicted them. Each (...)

In this richly illustrated volume Rosa Giorgi argues that because much of Western art depicts key events, leaders, and practices in the history of the Christian Church, knowledge of that history is critical to an appreciation of many of our great masterpieces. Giorgi begins by analyzing artistic (...)

El presente volumen pone a la luz el ceremonial que el portugues Manuel Ribeiro, maestro de ceremonias de Felipe IV, elaboró durante dos decadas por encargo de los monarcas hispanos, en lo que constituye una fuente de primer orden para el conocimiento de la corte madrileña del siglo XVII. El (...)

Pablo Gargallo (1881-1934) cobra capital relevancia en la incorporación de la plástica a la modernidad. Situado en la encrucijada del fértil periodo de entreguerras, la dualidad de su producción escultórica, entre la tradición y la vanguardia, hacen de él un artista excepcional e inclasificable, (...)