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This beautifully illustrated, expansive overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creative achievements of one of the most important eras in Western art.

Édouard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in conflicting desires. From the 1880s until the advent of World War II, using styles from academic to (...)

Jean-Michel Basquiat's self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition to some 50 specific portraits of himself, we can also see his series of likenesses of African-American men as concealed reproductions of the artist. Not least because (...)

Drawing was central to Cezanne's indefatigable search for solutions to the problems posed by the depiction of reality. Many of his watercolours are equal to his paintings, and he himself made no real distinction between painting and drawing. This book's six chapters are arranged thematically (...)

The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art&;one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progressive, challenging, and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and innovative interpretations, Donatello uniquely depicted themes (...)

This book explores James Tissot's multifaceted career and provides a fresh perspective on the 19th-century French painter. James Tissot is best known for his paintings of fashionable women and society life in the late 19th century. Born in Nantes, France, he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in (...)

As intimate and meticulous as his revered portraits, Lucian Freud's magnificent paintings and drawings of plant life are gathered for the first time in book form. Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his (...)

This visually stunning volume offers perceptive examinations of several renowned German and Austrian Expressionist artists who redefined modern self-portraiture.The self-portrait has been a vital aspect of artistic expression throughout history. Neo-Classical painters such as El Greco and Rembrandt (...)

This volume, the second catalogue of the Wyvern Collection, celebrates an outstanding group of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, the finest assemblage of its kind in private hands. The book has pieces from every period of the Middle Ages, including rare examples from the Early Christian (...)

A passionate advocate of craftsmanship over mass-production, William Morris (1834- 1896) designed a huge variety of objects, but it is his highly original carpet, fabric and wallpaper patterns that have continued to capture the imagination and exert their influence on the decorative arts. Around (...)

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) è stato uno dei maestri più importanti del Rinascimento nordico e la sua arte ha travalicato i confini della natia Germania, divenendo un punto di riferimento per pittori, disegnatori e incisori dell'intera Europa.Grande pittore e mirabile disegnatore, mostrò in (...)

The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic compositions and pronounced contrasts between light and dark, the baroque was later exported by countless artists to their own countries, where the new (...)

Edward Hopper describe la sociedad americana a través de sus pinturas directas y francas: paisajes rurales desiertos, gasolineras, moteles ferrocarriles, ciudades con rápida urbanización.

A principios del siglo XVII surgieron en Europa las cartillas de dibujo, unos materiales pedagógicos que revolucionaron la metodología tradicional de la enseñanza de esta disciplina, permitiendo a artistas, aficionados y particulares progresar sin la presencia de un maestro, sobre todo en la (...)

El sentido estético del modernismo impregnó todas las artes, pero fue en la arquitectura y en las artes decorativas y gráficas donde destacó especialmente. La nueva burguesía, nacida con la pujanza de la industria y el comercio (en el caso de Novelda, basado principalmente en la piedra, la uva y (...)

Un cuidada selección del trabajo del artista procedente de su colección Kunsthalle Bremen centrada principalmente en Francia y Alemania desde el s.XIX hasta mediados del s.XX.

Il volume documenta uno spaccato della cultura figurativa perugina del XV secolo, attraverso l'analisi di una raccolta tanto insolita quanto preziosa, ovvero quella di una serie di cassoni o cofani nuziali in uso nelle dimore rinascimentali italiane. Questi manufatti, di cui solo pochi esemplari (...)

Napoléon, l'homme pressé, faisait aménager des berlines spéciales pour l'accompagner sur les champs de bataille. Dont un modèle révolutionnaire, commandé pour la campagne de Russie au carrossier Getting, qui permettait d'ouvrir la partie supérieure pour observer les alentours lors des opérations (...)

Il volume indaga il rapporto tra le culture artistiche di Brescia e Venezia nel corso del Cinquecento, alla luce delle novità introdotte dall'opera di Tiziano Vecellio.Partendo dalle sue due fondamentali imprese bresciane, ovvero il polittico realizzato per il vescovo Altobello Averoldi tra il 1520 (...)

Renaissance sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni (ca. 1440-1491) was a student of Donatello, a teacher of Michelangelo, and a favourite of Lorenzo de' Medici "il Magnifico," his principal patron. Bertoldo was one of the first sculptors to create statuettes in bronze. With an overview of the artist's (...)

George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature' presents the first significant overview of Stubbs's work in Britain for more than 30 years and brings together 80 paintings, drawings and publications from the National Gallery's Whistlejacket to pieces never previously seen in public.Stubbs produced (...)

Catálogo de la exposición Historia de dos pintoras. Sofonisba Anguissola y Lavinia Fontana, celebrada en el Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, entre el 22 de octubre de 2019 y el 2 de febrero de 2020.Historia de dos pintoras: Sofonisba Anguissola y Lavinia Fontana es el primer libro donde se cotejan (...)

The painter Carl Haag (1820-1915) gained acclaim for his colorful scenes of the Orient and true-to-life portraits, in which Nubian slaves, Arabian camel drivers or Egyptian snake charmers enliven the visual topography. After attending art school in Nuremberg, the son of a baker advanced to become a (...)

El trabajo artístico de Pin Morales y Román Arango fue reconocido temprana e internacionalmente, especialmente en Norteamérica. Abordaron un sinfín de propuestas artísticas: pintura, escultura, grabado, cerámica, diseño textil, intervenciones en espacios, además de colaboraciones con las artes (...)

Carteles españoles del siglo XXRef: S085123515,95 DescripciónLos carteles han sido hasta hace unas décadas uno de los escasos soportes de difusión publicitaria existentes y, desde finales del siglo XIX, el más conocido y aceptado. Gigantescos carteles de papel litografiado en vistosos colores (...)