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Pieter Bruegel the Elder is considered the greatest Dutch draughtsman of the sixteenth century. Even during his lifetime his drawings were highly valued and many ended up being widely disseminated in the for m of copperplate prints. Drawing on the pictorial tradition of previous artist generations, (...)

In 1918 the Belvedere Museum in Vienna became the first Austrian museum to acquire an oil painting by Egon Schiele during his lifetime. Now, a century later, the museum owns one of the top collections of paintings from the artist's final decade of works.This volume presents the highlights of the (...)

Jean-Michel Basquiat's self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition to some 50 specific portraits of himself, we can also see his series of likenesses of African-American men as concealed reproductions of the artist. Not least because (...)

In occasione del Cinquantesimo anniversario della scoperta dei Bronzi di Riace, avvenuta il 16 agosto 1972, il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria ha invitato i principali Musei autonomi della Magna Grecia e tutti i Musei archeologici della Calabria e a collaborare per la creazione di (...)

Si bien es reconocido mundialmente como uno de los grandes novelistas del género histórico, y especialmente marítimo, Patrick O'Brian fue, en realidad, un gran contador de historias.Publicada por primera vez en 1976, es ésta una biografía completa, exhaustiva, pero a la vez profundamente personal (...)