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Este libro es un homenaje a los soberbios ejemplos de la obra del Greco conservados en Estados Unidos. El estilo tan personal del artista tenía un aire de modernidad que atraía a los coleccionistas de aquel país, gracias a lo cual los museos americanos poseen muchos de los mejores Grecos que hay (...)

Andrew Wyeth is an essential introduction to the enduring masterworks of this profoundly popular American artist. Published on the occasion of the centennial of the artist s birth, this handsome book highlights works spanning the entirety of the artist s seven-decade career painting the landscapes (...)

Las villas romanas de la Bética constituían hasta ahora un importante problema arqueológico, a pesar de ser resuelto por la investigación especializada. Ello era así como consecuencia sobre todo de las importantes novedades que en relación con este tema se han producido en Andalucía en los últimos (...)

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) pasó la mayor parte de su vida artística en Sevilla, donde realizó una serie con trece personajes del Génesis representados a tamaño natural: Jacob y sus doce hijos. Aunque pudo ser fruto de un encargo de las Américas, fue subastada en Inglaterra a mediados del (...)

A beautiful overview of fascinating paintings of the classical world and the Holy Land by a beloved American artist Frederic Church (1826-1900), one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration for his highly (...)

On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metals to beadwork, wood, and even paintings, images (...)

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 (...)

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two remarkable paintings are often overshadowed by (...)

Eduardo Arroyo y el paraíso de las moscas recorre la vida y la obra del reconocido artista español (Madrid, 1937). Nacido durante la dictadura, Arroyo escogió el exilio en París y luego en Italia, antes de regresar a España con la restauración de la democracia. Autor clave en la figuración (...)

Los chicos soñadores, con texto e ilustraciones de Oskar Kokoschka, se publicó en 1908. Kokoschka tenía veintidós años y era alumno de la Escuela de Arte y Oficios de Viena. Había recibido el encargo de la Wiener Werkstätte de ilustrar un libro de fábulas, que en sus manos se transformó en una (...)

In the first of two volumes Kandinsky's temperas, gouaches and watercolours from the Munich years and the Russian period are definitively catalogued and discussed in chronological order (including those known only from documentary evidence). Many previously unknown pictures are published for the (...)

Per celebrare i vent'anni dalla sua riapertura, la Galleria Borghese di Roma dedica una grande mostra a Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Napoli, 7 dicembre 1598 - Roma, 28 novembre 1680). La Villa, che contiene il nucleo più importante e spettacolare di marmi berniniani, è infatti la sede ideale per (...)

Per secoli Bononi, come del resto l'intero Seicento ferrarese, è rimasto in ombra, offuscato dal ricordo della magica stagione rinascimentale della Ferrara degli Este. Una lenta operazione di recupero critico ha progressivamente messo a fuoco la figura di un artista unico che seppe interpretare in (...)

Giambattista Tiepolo e villa Manin a Passariano. Si tratta di un binomio che evoca un evento straordinario: la mostra del 1971 realizzata in occasione dei duecento anni dalla morte del pittore e destinata a segnare il punto di svolta nella sua fortuna critica.A distanza di tempo l'Azienda Speciale (...)

Empress Maria Theresa pursued a singular approach when it came to cultural policy. She sought reform not only in education, but also in the field of art, and commissioned a wealth of works from painters, sculptors, and other artists in Austria and abroad. These reform efforts brought about an (...)

"Esta exposición pretende celebrar el proceso de construcción de la arqueología española coincidiendo con el 150 aniversario de la fundación del Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN), pero también del nacimiento de la red de museos arqueológicos españoles.El objetivo central es presentar la historia y (...)

Para dibujar los personajes más característicos de Anime. Esta guía indispensable enseña a crear personajes dinámicos de los géneros de anime más populares. Usando como punto de partida sencillas plantillas, se aprenderá a hacer surgir una amplia gama de personajes de anime totalmente originales: (...)

One hundred nudes d'auteur and a selection of passages from famous authors explore ironically and erotically a theme dear to the art of all times. Through the centuries, the evolution of an idea of the body viewed as the place of beauty and desire.

The American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was one of the seminal artists of the second half of the twentieth century, with a complex oeuvre extending over six decades. His work brilliantly fused the legacy of American Abstract Expressionism with the intellectual rigor of classical European and (...)

Jasper Johns (b.1930) is regarded as one of the most influential American artists of the last sixty years. When he broke onto the New York art scene in the 1950s, Johns and his lover Robert Rauschenberg established a decisive new direction in an art world that had been dominated by the Abstract (...)

A través de su estilo decorativo inconfundible, el artista checo y maestro del art nueva Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) definió la estética de fin de siglo. Sus sugerentes composiciones de motivos ornamentales, flores y bellas mujeres de evocadoras tonalidades melocotón, oro, ocre y oliva se convirtieron (...)

The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile charts the story of the French artists who took refuge in London during and after the devastating Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune. Following these traumatic events there was a creative flourishing in London as the exiles (...)