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La magia es vista como una capacidad innata de la humanidad que siempre vuelve a emerger, especialmente tras largos períodos de racionalismo, y que ni la religión, ni la ciencia ni la política consiguen erradicar jamás.

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 (...)

If weddings are the most lavish events in many parts of the world, in Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, it is funerals. Funeral celebrations can be flamboyant occasions, particularly those honoring prominent people. Artworks of many kinds are created to commemorate the dead from mortuary sculptures (...)

Desde sus primeras manifestaciones en las catacumbas de Roma y hasta nuestros días, los relatos evangélicos han sido una de las principales fuentes de inspiración para la historia del arte occidental y su conocimiento es indispensable para entender dos milenios de arte, incluyendo gran parte del (...)