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Caroline Bonaparte, née en 1782, est la plus jeune s ur de Napoléon et celle qui, selon lui, lui ressemble le plus . Elle épouse en 1800, le général Joachim Murat dont la grande bravoure suscite l'admiration. Altesse impériale en 1804, reine de Naples et des Deux-Siciles en 1808, Caroline devient (...)

From the drawing to the finished work. Under the learned guidance of Franc ois Macé de Lépinay, it is now possible for the first time to reconstruct the creative trajectory of Giovan Battista Salvi, known as Sassoferrato. Living in the Rome of the baroque era but far away from the tumult of the art (...)

La città di Palermo, all'indomani della dura repressione di Messina, l'eterna sua rivale ribellatasi alla Spagna (1678), vive i fasti di unica capitale del Viceregno di Sicilia. Questo libro dà ampiamente conto dei suoi giorni d'oro , delle meraviglie di una produzione artistica raffinata e di (...)

En este libro se abordan las conexiones culturales y artísticas entre al-Andalus y Egipto desde puntos de vista diversos y multidisciplinares. Las obras estudiadas, de arquitectura, epigrafía y artes suntuarias (astrolabios, cerámicas, marfiles, metales, tejidos o vidrios), muestran un rico (...)

The paintings of Frédéric Bazille (1841 1870) were rediscovered after the turn of the century by art critics and curators who accredited the artist as an important pioneer in the development of impressionism. Tracing his artistic career from its inception?including his links to Manet, Monet, (...)

This stunning volume represents the first serious effort to reposition the history of 18th-century Mexican painting, a highly vibrant period marked by major stylistic changes and the invention of new iconographies. Exquisitely illustrated with newly commissioned photography of (...)

From a leading art instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, a complete survey of drawing as an art form covering its history, materials, and key techniques, alongside step-by-step demonstrations.Foundations of Drawing is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the (...)

Monografía que tiene como objetivo el conocimiento del proceso creativo de la pintura bajomedieval, desde los elementos más puramente materiales, como las técnicas, prácticas y materias primas, hasta aquellos aspectos más intangibles y personales relativos al aprendizaje, la capacidad de diseño o (...)

Dos ensayos con ilustrativas y 115 reproducciones a color de las obras de la exposición. Textos por parte de los comisarios: Paloma Alarcó, Conservadora Jefe de Arte moderno en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza; Francisco Calvo Serraller, Crítico de arte y profesor.Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) y (...)

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way (...)

This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cezanne's portraiture practice, including his creation of complementary pairs and multiple versions of the same subject . The chronological development of the artist's portraiture is also (...)

En este libro encontrará más de 50 técnicas de dibujo diferentes. Bellas fotografías ilustran con detalle las instrucciones paso a paso. Para mostrar tan amplio abanico de técnicas en contexto y para inspirarle, el libro incluye una extensa galería con algunos de los mejores dibujos de diferentes (...)

Spanning over 60 years of Jasper Johns's (b. 1930) prolific career, this spectacular publication is the most comprehensive and definitive study of the artist's work to date. Written by noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, the book explores the synergy between continuity and change in the (...)

This first thorough survey of Bourgeois' prints and books orients these works within her broader practiceLouise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints and books of the celebrated sculptor. This little-known body of work is vast in scope?numbering some 1,200 individual compositions?and (...)

In 1842, Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (1434) was acquired by the National Gallery in London. It quickly exerted an influence on British artists, none more so than the young painters of the nascent Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who were drawn to van Eyck's luminous palette, attention to detail, (...)

The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist's career in the early 1960s (...)

The life and works of Giacomo Balla, from his apprenticeship in Turin to the great futurist moment.In the beginning, Giacomo Balla learned his trade in Turin and entered the cruel, painful reality of society's underclass with a penetrating, human eye. Parallel to the themes of suffering and (...)

Gerhard Richter is an exceptional personality not only because his pictures are world famous, but also because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colors and forms nor deliver an intact picture of reality, but rather move between (...)

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 1717) trained as an artist under her stepfather in Nuremberg. Fascinated by butterflies and moths from an early age, she studied the insect life cycle through the animals she found in local fields and gardens, recording her discoveries in meticulous watercolors and (...)

Anna Tuori is one of the most original and versatile Finnish painters of her generation. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of her continually evolving work and her playful, intriguing, and melancholic oddball world, the center of which is always painting. The book includes a (...)