Libros

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way (...)

Don McCullin's reputation stands as one of the greatest war photographers of our times. In recent years he has photographed the landscape surrounding his home in Somerset, but his later travels have taken him to some of the most remote regions in the world. His skill in photographing people in (...)

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present.In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red-now traces the visual, (...)

Michelangelo da Caravaggio è un pittore sorprendente e paradossale. Pochi artisti hanno suscitato lo stesso entusiasmo e le reazioni polemiche sorte sin dal suo esordio pubblico nell'anno 1600. Oggi le ricerche sul maestro lombardo costituiscono una sorta di 'cantiere' aperto che richiede un lavoro (...)

Con motivo de la conmemoración del 50º aniversario de la muerte de Picasso, el Museo Reina Sofía ha organizado, con el apoyo excepcional del Musée Picasso Paris, Picasso 1906. La gran transformación, que cierra el programa oficial de exposiciones internacionales de esta celebración y que plantea (...)

A Orange, en 105 avant notre ère, les Romains subissent la plus impressionnante défaite depuis Hannibal ; en 451, Attila échoue à conquérir la Gaule dans les champs Catalauniques ; la bataille de Poitiers, en 732, met fin aux incursions musulmanes en Aquitaine et ouvre le sud de la Loire à (...)

Los naufragios de la Gran Armada Española en Irlanda. The shipwrecks of the Spanish Armada in IrelandPublicación bilingüe que contiene la transcripción de la carta que remitió el capitán Cuéllar tras haber sobrevivido al naufragio de su nave La Lavia en la bahía de Streedagh, costa noroccidental de (...)