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This book features over eighty artworks by more than seventy artists that represent the glory of British watercolors from the Victorian period. Artists include: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward BurneJones, George John Pinwell and Myles Birket Foster. Peter Raissis explores the social, cultural, and (...)

Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being the best in painting, Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. (...)

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the (...)

L'empereur popularisé au XXème siècle par Marguerite Yourcenar dans ses Mémoires d'Hadrien a régné sur l'Empire romain de 117 à 138. Il succédait à Trajan, qui fut son tuteur et l'adopta avant de mourir.Contre la politique conquérante de son prédécesseur dont il avait pu, dans ses fonctions (...)

La collection "Les écrits de Jacques Thuillier" se propose de rendre accessible l'essentiel de l'oeuvre de ce grand historien de l'art et réunit des textes célèbres, inédits, dispersés ou devenus introuvables. Ce volume reprend la partie écrite par Jacques Thuillier dans La peinture française, (...)

Dos ensayos con ilustrativas y 115 reproducciones a color de las obras de la exposición. Textos por parte de los comisarios: Paloma Alarcó, Conservadora Jefe de Arte moderno en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; Francisco Calvo Serraller, Crítico de arte y profesor.Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) y (...)

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way (...)

This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cezanne's portraiture practice, including his creation of complementary pairs and multiple versions of the same subject . The chronological development of the artist's portraiture is also (...)

En este libro encontrará más de 50 técnicas de dibujo diferentes. Bellas fotografías ilustran con detalle las instrucciones paso a paso. Para mostrar tan amplio abanico de técnicas en contexto y para inspirarle, el libro incluye una extensa galería con algunos de los mejores dibujos de diferentes (...)

Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work to date. Written by noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, the book explores the synergy between continuity and change in the (...)

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 (...)

In 1842, Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (1434) was acquired by the National Gallery in London. It quickly exerted an influence on British artists, none more so than the young painters of the nascent Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who were drawn to van Eyck's luminous palette, attention to detail, (...)

The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s (...)

The life and works of Giacomo Balla, from his apprenticeship in Turin to the great futurist moment.In the beginning, Giacomo Balla learned his trade in Turin and entered the cruel, painful reality of society's underclass with a penetrating, human eye. Parallel to the themes of suffering and (...)

Gerhard Richter is an exceptional personality not only because his pictures are world famous, but also because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colors and forms nor deliver an intact picture of reality, but rather move between (...)

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 1717) trained as an artist under her stepfather in Nuremberg. Fascinated by butterflies and moths from an early age, she studied the insect life cycle through the animals she found in local fields and gardens, recording her discoveries in meticulous watercolors and (...)

Through works of art, photographs, and writings, this volume explores Picasso's fascination with tribal art and the influences he repeatedly drew upon for his own oeuvre. African art? I don't know it. With this provocative tone, Picasso tried to deny his relationship with art from outside of (...)

Catalogo de la exposicion organizada por la Oficina de Cultura y Turismo de la Comunidad de Madrid, en colaboración con la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando y el Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid en la Sala Alcalá 31 donde aflora el tratamiento de la identidad, con matices (...)