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The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, styles, and backgrounds took up watercolor in the 1870s, inspiring younger generations of (...)

This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names (...)

Piedra angular de la literatura universal, las Mil y una noches han inspirado a numerosos autores, desde Charles Dickens y Edgar Allan Poe a Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector o Angela Carter. En esta lujosa edición ilustrada y anotada, el historiador literario Paulo Lemos Horta y la poeta y (...)