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Trompe l'oeil (French for "fool or deceive the eye"), is a genre dating back to antiquity that has fascinated both painters and viewers from the Renaissance to the present day. Both witty and serious, it describes paintings that imitate natural appearances so convincingly that viewers momentarily (...)

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows impressively how the young artists individually explored this (...)

Historia cultural de las parteras y nodrizas en el Siglo de Oro, examina una selección de formas narrativas en donde la presencia de estas figuras revela las preocupaciones en torno a la maternidad, tales como el papel del padre durante el parto, el privilegio otorgado a la comadrona o la necesidad (...)