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Gerhard Richter is an exceptional personality not only because his pictures are world famous, but also because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colors and forms nor deliver an intact picture of reality, but rather move between (...)

Over a career that now spans nearly seven decades, the American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927, New York) has devoted himself to the representation of the here and now and to the immediacy of human perception a commitment to what the artist has often described as painting in the present tense. Alex (...)

Published to accompany a major international exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life features Hockney's drawings from the 1950s to the present day, and focuses on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close to him: his muse, Celia Birtwell; his mother, Laura Hockney; and his (...)

Entre el 19 de junio y el 30 de septiembre de 2018, el Museo del Prado acogió una exposición dedicada a los retratos de Lorenzo Lotto comisariada por Miguel Falomir y Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo. Era la primera expresamente dedicada a la actividad de Lotto como retratista, e incluyó treinta y ocho (...)

Questo libro prende le mosse dall'individuazione di un nuovo "Autoritratto" che Giovanni Baglione (Roma 1569(?) - 1643) dipinse in gioventù e si sviluppa passando in rassegna gli autoritratti e i ritratti attualmente conosciuti dell'artista, per ampliare quindi il discorso sulla sua intera (...)