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This first thorough survey of Bourgeois' prints and books orients these works within her broader practiceLouise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints and books of the celebrated sculptor. This little-known body of work is vast in scope?numbering some 1,200 individual compositions?and (...)

A comprehensive and breathtakingly illustrated presentation of the genius of Michelangelo by the world's leading expert on the artist The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual (...)

Expressing one of many Luba sub-styles, the tall, standing male figures created by master carvers of the Hemba culture in southeastern Congo since at least the mid-1800s arguably rank among the noblest sculptural depictions of the human figure in sub-Saharan Africa. With their serene gaze and (...)

Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1500 1543), one of Raphael's most influential and distinctive followers, has not been well treated by time. His significant early frescoes, which graced exterior palace facades in Rome, have perished almost without exception. A rare few are preserved but most are known (...)

Napoli, 2010; br., pp. 208, ill. b/n e col., tavv., cm 24x28. Gian Cristoforo Romano artista al seguito di Isabella d'Este, famoso e ricercato nelle più importanti corti italiane rinascimentali svela la sua figura, come uomo e come artista, grazie agli studi di Pierluigi Leone de Castris che, (...)

A través de una selección del artista, la obra se despliega en su contexto expositivo, generando un diálogos entre las propias pinturas y con el lector/espectador.Su antitipografía, las palmeras, los paisajes monocromáticos o las figuras desenfocadas son algunos de los elementos constitutivos del (...)