Libros

This groundbreaking study focuses on John Singer Sargent's sustained, yet largely overlooked, involvement with Chicago's vibrant Gilded Age culture. Documenting the artist's personal connections to the city and the prominence of his work in Chicago collections, Annelise K. Madsen explores Sargent's (...)

In the summer of 1997 the city of Prague, former seat of one of the greatest and most influential monarchs in history, Rudolf II, is hosting a spectacular three-month celebration of art, music, and science. Nearly four hundred years after Rudolf's death in 1612, the reign of this enlightened and (...)

Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) and his younger protégé Egon Schiele (1890 1918) are considered two of the greatest figures of Austrian Modernism. Whether inspiring or competing with one another, together they reconfigured the way the human body was translated into art. Although both artists are primarily (...)

Grâce à plus de 200 cartes et documents, cet atlas explore la diversité et la richesse du monde grec, de l'époque classique à la période hellénistique. Ressources, population, productions et échanges dans un espace d'abord balkanique et égéen qui s'élargit en Méditerranée puis au Proche-Orient. Un (...)

De la belleza y lo sagrado es la primera revisión de conjunto de la obra de Isabel Baquedano (Mendavia, Navarra, 1929 Madrid, 2018), una de las figuras más personales de la pintura española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Como resumen las palabras del pintor Juan José Aquerreta, "El destino de (...)

La mirada extravagante es el homenaje colectivo de veinte colegas y amigos de Fernando Marías, compañeros de viaje en el estudio de la cultura de la Edad Moderna en la encrucijada entre la ciencia, la religión y el arte. Fernando Marías (Madrid, 1949) es catedrático de Historia del Arte en el (...)

A detailed look at a genre that combines virtuoso printmaking techniques, sophisticated imagery, and engaging, playful poetryThis beautiful volume celebrates the tradition of the Japanese surimono print. Produced from around 1800 until 1840, during the Edo period, surimono ("printed things" in (...)

Marc Quinn's eight life-sized sculptural self-portraits were created during a challenging period in his life. In the early 1990's, the artist was processing the transformation brought on by the end of his alcohol addiction, and spent hours visiting the Messerschmidt sculpture The Strong Smell' at (...)