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Trompe l'oeil (French for "fool or deceive the eye"), is a genre dating back to antiquity that has fascinated both painters and viewers from the Renaissance to the present day. Both witty and serious, it describes paintings that imitate natural appearances so convincingly that viewers momentarily (...)

Sabartés por Picasso por Sabartés quiere contribuir a dar a conocer la vida y el trabajo de Jaume Sabartés i Gual (Barcelona, 1881 París, 1968), fundador del Museu Picasso de Barcelona. Amigo intimo y confidente de Pablo Picasso, fué su secretario personal des del noviembre del 1935 hasta que (...)

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows impressively how the young artists individually explored this (...)