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Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher this pioneering study uncovers an (...)

"La fuerza creadora escapa a toda denominación. Probablemente ella misma es materia, una forma de materia que no es perceptible con los mismos sentidos que los otros tipos conocidos de materia. Pero es preciso que se deje reconocer en la materia conocida. Incorporada a ella debe funcionar, Unida a (...)

El Breviario de Isabel la Católica es un breviario iluminado de finales del siglo XV. Se conserva en la British Library de Londres.This is a deluxe edition art book on the Isabella Breviary, the one that belonged to Queen Isabella I of Spain (Castile) who comissioned and funded Columbus America's (...)

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. The Voynich Manuscript is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understand and explore the enigma. Many call the (...)

Depuis plus de trente ans, le Conservatoire du portrait du XVIIIe siècle (CPDHS) s'efforce de réunir les effigies des contemporains de Louis XV et de Louis XVI. C'est une quête permanente afin d'identifier les modèles dont les noms ne sont pas toujours conservés ou dont les identités se révèlent (...)

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 1986) was one of the foundational figures of American modernism and a pioneering woman in the arts. Widely celebrated and recognized for her flower paintings and Southwest landscapes, O'Keeffe is revealed in full in this new book. With superb plates of more than 200 works, it (...)