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Les estampes japonaises ou ukiyo-e évoquent les plaisirs éphémères de la bourgeoisie citadine du Japon durant la période d'Edo (1603-1868) : beautés féminines, acteurs de kabuki de renom, attractions touristiques et paysages grandioses. Les Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles possèdent (...)

Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being the best in painting, Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. (...)

An exploration of the rivalry between Kuniyoshi and Kunisada, two of the most popular Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artists of the nineteenth century, based on masterworks from the peerless Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Rival ukiyo-e masters Kuniyoshi and Kunisada (...)

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) is best known as a painter of still life subjects beautifully executed in tempera. Less well known are his haunting views of bomb-sites in London after World War II. This revealing, fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first survey exhibition on the artist since (...)

George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature' presents the first significant overview of Stubbs's work in Britain for more than 30 years and brings together 80 paintings, drawings and publications from the National Gallery's Whistlejacket to pieces never previously seen in public.Stubbs produced (...)

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's (...)

In the East, some plants have been imbued with a special meaning and symbolism beyond their natural properties. This book presents a series of beautifully hand-drawn plates of oriental plants.

Los trece capítulos recogidos en este libro reflexionan sobre los grados de asimilación, los intercambios y las particularidades presentes en el arte español, temas que centraron la investigación de Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza. Las obras analizadas documentan las intensas relaciones culturales y (...)