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This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid water, wine, milk, oil, or honey was poured from a vessel such as a jug or a bowl onto the (...)

From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878 1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, Museum Work and Museum Problems, through Harvard University's Fine Arts Department. Known simply as the Museum Course, the program was responsible for shaping a professional field museum curatorship (...)

Desde que TASCHEN publicase por primera vez The Great American Pin-up, el interés por una modalidad artística tan intrínsecamente americana ha aumentado de manera exponencial. Las imágenes creadas por artistas destacados como Alberto Vargas, George Petty y Gil Elvgren que en 1996 podían adquirirse (...)

Willem de Kooning fue un destacado exponente del expresionismo abstracto. La retrospectiva de De Kooning 2011 del MoMA atrajo multitudes récord, y sus prodigiosos logros continúan provocando e inspirando a las generaciones posteriores de artistas como Cecily Brown, Rebecca Warren y Jonathan (...)

A unique approach to the history of art told through the story of colour and pigments.Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeer's Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the walls of cave temples in Bamiyan, Afghanistan? Or (...)