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El manual Arqueología romana en la península ibérica supone un estado de la cuestión de las evidencias materiales con las que contamos en la actualidad para valorar la llegada e implantación romana así como el tránsito a la Antigüedad Tardía de lo que fue la antigua provincia de Hispania, abarcando (...)

El parque del Retiro, con una extensión de 118 hectáreas y su privilegiada situación en el centro de la ciudad, es el gran parque de Madrid y uno de sus símbolos. Un lugar cargado de historia, lleno de monumentos y con una variada muestra de jardines y paisajes. Con la ayuda de este libro, en el (...)

Aires frescos y modernos en la acuarela Ramos, coronas o marcos de hojas y flores las composiciones que presenta este libro despiertan una gran motivación para coger el pincel e iniciarse en el mágico mundo de la acuarela. Esta obra presenta de un modo accesible a todos las técnicas básicas para (...)

Este primer volumen de la colección Pirineos Románicos es un estudio monográfico dedicado al conjunto pictórico procedente de la iglesia de San Juan Bautista de Ruesta (Urriés, Zaragoza) y conservado en el Museo Diocesano de Jaca. Pese a su interés y relevancia en el panorama de la pintura mural (...)

LISBOA. ACUARELAS DE VIAJE Dicen que Lisboa tiene una luz especial. Son muchos los poetas que la han elogiado... Cuando habitas en una ciudad y recorres sus calles a diario, aquel pasmo inicial que vive el visitante primerizo se suele difuminar tras el parabrisas y una larga cola de tráfico. Muchas (...)

Te invitamos a viajar en el tiempo y a descubrir la historia de la pintura a través de una galería de arte creada por el galardonado autor Mick Manning y la prestigiosa ilustradora Brita Granström.Desde el arte rupestre de la Edad de Piedra hasta los grafitis de Jean-Michel Basquiat, pasando por (...)

Eduardo Chillida a lo largo de su vida recogió en numerosos escritos sus reflexiones sobre su trabajo como escultor, sus inicios en el arte o sus convicciones morales. En este volumen se reúnen todos sus escritos y es un testimonio del pensamiento del maestro vasco, que ilumina la intención latente (...)

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) is best known as a painter of still life subjects beautifully executed in tempera. Less well known are his haunting views of bomb-sites in London after World War II. This revealing, fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first survey exhibition on the artist since (...)

Accompanying an exhibition of drawings by Guercino from the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum, Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers an overview of the artist's graphic work.

An extraordinary history of Netherlandish drawing, focused on the training and skill of artists during the long 17th centuryWith a lively narrative thread and thematic chapters, this book offers an exceptional introduction to Dutch and Flemish drawing during the long 17th century. Victoria Sancho (...)

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 (...)

Made in Malines! Derrière ce titre qui résonne comme un label commercial se cache une marque ou plutôt toute une série de marques énigmatiques. Elles ont été apposées, autour de 1500, sur des statuettes communément appelées poupées malinoises : le M et le blason à trois pals de la ville de Malines (...)