Libros

No sólo son necesarias las manos de un buen cocinero para preparar la más exquisita de las recetas; el lugar en que se sirve y las personas que la acompañan son determinantes a la hora de convertir una comida en un absoluto placer. La atención' y el servicio de los camareros condimentan cada uno de (...)

Chanel íntima ofrece un personalísimo y detallado retrato de la gran Coco Chanel. Para perfilarlo, su autora, Isabelle Fiemeyer, ha contado con la inestimable colaboración del único descendiente vivo de la diseñadora, su sobrina nieta Gabrielle Palasse-Labrunie.La obra reconstruye la figura de (...)

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 (...)

The bravura Impressionist works of the premier Spanish painter of a century ago, showcased and explored in detail by an international team of renowned scholarsJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) was the leading Spanish painter of his day, world-famous when Picasso was still struggling to (...)

A Bucket List Tour of Europe's Private Gardens.Acres of white-blooming garden rooms on the island of Mallorca. A seven-tiered wonder of stone, plants, and water above Germany's Rhine River. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation in a quiet Scottish valley. These sumptuous landscapes are just three of the (...)

Este libro nace de la inquietud de representar la belleza y el arte sevillano, la luz y el colorido de esta ciudad que enamora.El libro se divide en tres paseos, reales, para conocer la ciudad a través de las acuarelas pintadas durante cuatro años.La ruta Ocre, recorre el casco antiguo, (...)

Antes de América. Fuentes originarias en la cultura moderna presenta, con más de seiscientas obras, un largo proceso a partir de fuentes que se remontan a mucho antes de que los europeos bautizaran como América a todo un continente: el de la reinterpretación, en la cultura moderna y contemporánea, (...)

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 (...)