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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 (...)