Arte

El Impresionismo inaugura una manera de mirar y de pintar que establecerá las bases sobre las que se asentará el nuevo arte del siglo XX. Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet o Renoir, entre los nombres centrales del movimiento, y figuras de marcado estilo personal como Paul Gauguin o Vincent van Gogh (...)

Como su propio nombre indica, "Del construir" se centra en el mundo de la arquitectura, de la producción de las obras, de quienes las concibieron y realizaron, de las técnicas usadas, de los materiales empleados. Ahora bien, en el Medievo todo esto se entendía de una manera bastante diferente a la (...)

Guardi, Goya, Picasso, Modigliani, Giacometti, Bourgeois .Alicia Koplowitz a réuni une collection à son image, qui rassemble près de 200 uvres maîtresses des plus grands artistes. Les maîtres anciens et modernes s'y côtoient dans un passionnant dialogue à travers les siècles : les tableaux de (...)

Célébré en son temps, Théodore van Loon est aujourd'hui méconnu du grand public. Peintre foncièrement original, au tempérament artistique très différent de Rubens, il forge son langage essentiellement à partir de son expérience à Rome, où il se rend à plusieurs reprises au cours de sa carrière. (...)

As intimate and meticulous as his revered portraits, Lucian Freud's magnificent paintings and drawings of plant life are gathered for the first time in book form. Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his (...)

The Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examines the major developments in German (...)

This lavish catalogue presents sketches made en plein air between the end of the eighteenth century and late nineteenth century. It accompanies a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (USA), the Fondation Custodia (France) and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).In the (...)

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Metamorphoses at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguins rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in (...)

The Japanese Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura (born 1951) first caused a stir in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational paintings that associated her with the Neue Wilde. In the late 1980s Ikemura developed a novel visual vocabulary that ultimately led her to a fusion of body and landscape (...)

Mito, filosofia, misticismo e poesia. Sono solo alcune delle tappe che compongono lo sfaccettato percorso artistico del tedesco Anselm Kiefer, celebrato nel volume Anselm Kiefer. Angeli caduti, edito da Marsilio Arte in occasione dell'omonima mostra ospitata a Palazzo Strozzi dal 22 marzo al 21 (...)

In praise of folly: on the fool and the jester in Flemish art According to medieval theologians, faith is a deadly serious business. Humour and virtue are irreconcilable, because laughter is uncontrollable and escapes the control of reason. A modest smile is permitted. But laughing loudly, grinning (...)