Libros

A distanza di quattro anni dal primo volume di saggi (Spogliando modelli e alzando lumi) e a due dal secondo (Entro l'aria bruna d'una camera rinchiusa), Gianni Papi pubblica una terza raccolta di contributi su Caravaggio e l'ambiente caravaggesco. Come nelle due raccolte precedenti, una parte dei (...)

The Ghent Altarpiece or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by the Van Eyck brothers (1432), is recognised worldwide as a great work of art, and one of the most influential paintings ever made. It was the world's first major oil painting, and it is laced with religious mysticism. The work almost (...)

The first edition of this historic text, an indisputable and virtually unobtainable reference, is finally reissued, reviewed, corrected and expanded. This book offers a wealth of information including a comprehensive overview of the intervention of German fighters in the skies of Normandy, the Ile (...)

El libro se inicia con el comentario de Heinrich Zimmer a un antiguo mito puránico que cuenta la historia de Indra, constructor de un palacio infinito, en el que tiempo y espacio desbordan todos los límites para sumergir al lector en el ritmo y las perspectivas inmensas de los ciclos cósmicos. El (...)