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Jasper Johns (b.1930) is regarded as one of the most influential American artists of the last sixty years. When he broke onto the New York art scene in the 1950s, Johns and his lover Robert Rauschenberg established a decisive new direction in an art world that had been dominated by the Abstract (...)

Per secoli Bononi, come del resto l'intero Seicento ferrarese, è rimasto in ombra, offuscato dal ricordo della magica stagione rinascimentale della Ferrara degli Este. Una lenta operazione di recupero critico ha progressivamente messo a fuoco la figura di un artista unico che seppe interpretare in (...)

La presencia de pintura italiana en la ciudad de Granada y su provincia es un componente de su patrimonio artístico conocido solo de forma fragmentaria. El presente volumen aborda por primera vez el estudio de tal acervo de manera integral, desde la llegada de obras italianas a la Capilla Real con (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

This 400-page volume is the first publication to explore in depth the painting of British artist Anish Kapoor (born 1934). It offers a unique insight into a language that has increasingly been a focus over the last 10 years, but which has also been an integral part of his studio practice since his (...)

Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the most fascinating in art history. This publication brings Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) encounter with the Cretan-born old master Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco (...)

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 (...)