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No literary figure of the 18th century was more esteemed than the poet Alexander Pope, and his sculpted portraits exemplify the celebration of literary fame at a period when authorship was being newly conceived and the portrait bust was enjoying new popularity. Accompanying an exhibition at (...)

En la céntrica y bulliciosa plaza del Salvador, frente a la monumental fachada de la antigua colegiata del Divino Salvador, se levanta la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Paz; no obstante, y a pesar de su privilegiada ubicación, nos encontramos con un templo poco conocido y valorado por los (...)

N. C. Wyeth (1882 1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wyeth and grandfather of Jamie, he was also an (...)

In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834 1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775 1851). Whistler's embrace of watercolor allowed the (...)

Solo unos cuantos devotos de la forma se han acercado a las radicales contribuciones que Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn aportó al arte del autorretrato. Rembrandt desafió las convenciones consagradas por sus predecesores y transformó este formato en un medio capaz de comunicar profundidad (...)

Catálogo de la exposición Antoni Fabrés, muestra que se propone recuperar la obra de un pintor catalán que en vida cosechó un gran éxito, pero que el inexorable paso del tiempo, y con él las diferentes generaciones historiográficas, dejaron en el olvido.

With more than 480 illustrations, this is the most comprehensive publication to date on one of the greatest painters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Lucian Freud.Lucian Freud was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and Phaidon is (...)

Troisième des quatre tomes du catalogue raisonné dédié à l'oeuvre de Francis Picabia (1879-1953), cet important volume présente les peintures et une sélection des dessins réalisés entre 1927 et 1939 par cet artiste phare de l'avant-garde. Les collages innovants et les oeuvres figuratives (...)