Libros

Les estampes japonaises ou ukiyo-e évoquent les plaisirs éphémères de la bourgeoisie citadine du Japon durant la période d'Edo (1603-1868) : beautés féminines, acteurs de kabuki de renom, attractions touristiques et paysages grandioses. Les Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles possèdent (...)

Majestic and magical landscapes, the soft beauty of fields of flowers, the raw cold of winter: the works of Harald Sohlberg (1869 1935) combine a romantic perception of nature with a contemporary pictorial language akin to symbolism. Particularly beguiling is the lack of humans in these atmospheric (...)

Más de 350 años despues de su muerte, el nombre de Velázquez no solo se asocia con un conjunto de obras prodigiosas o unos avatares biográficos, sino tambien a una riquísima historia de reinterpretaciones de su arte y de diálogos por parte de literatos, artistas, filósofos y una amplia variedad de (...)

As well as being Emperor of the French (and note, incidentally, that Napoleon's title was not Emperor of France') it is often forgotten, or simply overlooked, that Napoleon was also King of Italy a state that essentially comprised all Italy north of the Kingdom of Naples. The Kingdom of Italy was a (...)

Dopo la stagione dei grandi pittori del Rinascimento, il prestigio delle arti figurative cresce come mai prima nella storia. Nel corso del Cinquecento l'artista passa dall'essere un comune artigiano a ricoprire uno status pari a quello dei maggiori intellettuali del suo tempo. L'inscindibile (...)