Libros

New book, still in original shrink-wrap. A catalogue raisonne of Sol LeWitt's work with photography. Bilingual (English-Spanish). A beautiful publication.

Of all the museums in the world that have a Dutch masters collection, the Hermitage takes the prize. There might be other countries that have more, but outside of the Netherlands there is no other single museum with so many Dutch Masters under one roof. After Peter the Great, Catherine the Great (...)

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 (...)

Napoli rappresenta una tappa fondamentale per la vita e per le opere di Caravaggio. L'intensa resa della passione e dell'istinto nei dipinti più iconici realizzati dal maestro durante il periodo napoletano identifica, nella visione dei nostri contemporanei, lo stile e la personalità dell'artista (...)

An insightful overview of how Millet influenced and inspired many modernist artists that followed himJean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) was one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School. Through his publicly exhibited works and their critical reception, Millet was of crucial significance (...)

En esta publicación nos centramos en la faceta de Rembrandt como retratista, un género en el que el pintor más importante del siglo XVII holandés alcanzó el máximo nivel. Junto a una veintena de sus retratos, se presentan destacados ejemplos de otros artistas activos como él en Ámsterdam durante el (...)

Since the late 1960s Bruce Nauman has established a completely new understanding of contemporary art and has been acknowledged asone of the most relevant artists of the twentieth century. Both the last modern artist and - because of his ceaseless experimental approachto new media - the very first (...)

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 (...)