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Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Venetian Heritage--whose mission is to safeguard Venetian cultural legacy as manifested in architecture, music, and fine art--this stunning volume highlights the organization's work in restoring, preserving, and promoting the cultural heritage of Venice.

Born in 1541 in Crete, Domenico Theotokopoulos, known as Greco, made his first apprenticeship in the Byzantine tradition before completing his training in Venice and then in Rome.However, it was in Spain that his art flourished and took root in the 1570s. Attracted by the magnificent promises of (...)

Il volume intende indagare territori meno esplorati e angolazioni nuove del leonardismo. Vedere affiancate diverse opere quasi mai esposte precedentemente permette di riflettere sui vari stadi dell'influenza di Leonardo su alcuni artisti a lui contemporanei o di poco successivi. Fulcro della (...)

Guía de bolsillo con los principales movimientos, edificios, elementos y materiales. Una nueva e innovadora introducción a la cuestión del arte moderno y contemporáneo. Con una estructura sencilla, el libro examina cincuenta obras clave desde los primeros ejemplos del modernismo hasta el arte (...)

Los estudios sobre el color de Goethe tuvieron una gran repercusión en el arte de vanguardia, en particular entre pintores abstractos influidos por la teosofía.

En 1935, Paul Eluard pasa a formar parte del círculo más íntimo de Picasso. El poeta y el artista coinciden en el terreno del arte y la creación, así como en la misma orientación política. Eluard y Picasso conocieron y experimentaron la intensa interrelación entre la pintura y la poesía, la (...)

The best-illustrated survey of a spectacular ancient art, now available in an affordable edition Mosaic has been called painting for eternity, and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original condition and variety. Mosaic pavements with geometric and (...)