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One of the best known and simultaneously most notorious figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54 68) is usually characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual emperor, a ruler who proverbially fiddled while Rome burnt'. However, as new research demonstrates, this reputation is crudely reductive (...)

The third volume of Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev's (...)

Dioses, tumbas y sabios narra las aventuras de aquellos intrépidos arqueólogos empeñados en descubrir los secretos de civilizaciones ya desaparecidas. Gracias a ellos conocemos Troya, los tesoros aztecas, la tumba de Tutankhamón, Pompeya, Nínive, el Valle de los Reyes... Todos distintos, pero con (...)

Un retrato íntimo y controvertido de Pablo Picasso por John Berger, ganador del Premio Booker.En su momento de mayor genialidad, Pablo Picasso era el pintor revolucionario que desafiaba a los valores de su época. En su momento de mayor fama, era como un personaje de la realeza: idolatrado, rico y (...)