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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the (...)

Gods and Heroes in Art aims to help museum patrons and art lovers recognize the legendary characters of classical antiquity in art. The characters are each described in entries summarizing their distinctive stories, their special attributes, and the ways in which artists have depicted them. Each (...)

This stunning book uses 21st-century technology to reveal the original colors of ancient sculpture. When Renaissance artists sought to imitate ancient sculpture, their medium of choice was pure, white marble, but little did they know that the works they emulated were originally painted in dazzling (...)

La pintura de 1200 a 1500 es un espejo de su tiempo, marcado por una profunda religiosidad y tendencias progresivas, por la prosperidad económica, así como por las devastadoras guerras y epidemias. A una perspectiva religiosa se unen temas seculares y esfuerzos para lograr una forma realista de (...)

Quien ahonda en la práctica de un arte o en su historia, se enfrenta siempre con las cuestiones clave: qué es el arte, qué es el estilo y las tradiciones artísticas; cómo se crean, se contemplan y disfrutan las obras maestras. Pero en muchas ocasiones, la teoría del arte se presenta abstrusa e (...)

This substantial volume is the first major resource on the life and work of Gordon Onslow Ford (1912 2003), the British-born painter who was the youngest member of André Breton's surrealist group in Paris, and who spent more than 50 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.Marked by an initial interest (...)