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Buenos Aries boasts a number of impressive buildings in a range of architectural styles. But when Anat Meidan, an art collector with a passion for La Belle Epoque, moved to the city, she was delighted to discover how much of the city's Art Nouveau architecture from the early 20th century had (...)

Josef Albers (1888 1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the Homages to the Square (painted 1950 76) and The Interaction of Color, published by Yale University Press in 1963.This (...)

This wide-ranging book elucidates the symbolism of veils and highlights the power of drapery in Italian art from Giotto to Titian. In the cities of the Renaissance, display of luxury dress was a marker of status. Florentines decked out their palaces and streets with textiles for public rituals. But (...)

Bajo la dirección del Museo del Prado de Federico de Madrazo, quien tomó las riendas del Museo por primera vez de 1860 a 1868, fueron restauradores de la plantilla Nicolás Argandona, Nicolás Gato de Lema y Vicente Poleró. En esta primera gran generación de restauradores del Prado, destaca como (...)