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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, (...)

How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness, aggression or respect? Madam & Eve explores the female gaze as it focuses on other women.The authors an artist and a curator investigate the work of (...)

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 (...)

This visually stunning volume offers perceptive examinations of several renowned German and Austrian Expressionist artists who redefined modern self-portraiture.The self-portrait has been a vital aspect of artistic expression throughout history. Neo-Classical painters such as El Greco and Rembrandt (...)

Il volume è dedicato all'opera di Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970), una delle più grandi pittrici contemporanee e voce di primo piano nel panorama artistico internazionale.Saville trascende i limiti tra figurativo e astratto, tra informale e gestuale, riuscendo a trasfigurare la cronaca in (...)