Libros

Nicolò dell'Abate. Storie dipinte nella pittura del Cinquecento tra Modena e Fontainebleau. ISBN: 888215856X Descrizione libro: Silvana Editoriale, 2005. Modena, Foro Boario, 20 marzo - 19 giugno 2005. A cura di Sylvie Béguin e Francesca Piccinini. Cinisello Balsamo (MI), 2005; br., pp. 552, 192 (...)

El pintor floral francés Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) se dedicó en cuerpo y alma a las artes botánicas y plasmó la diversidad de las plantas con flores en acuarelas que se publicaron como grabados punteados, con cuidadas descripciones. Adorado y admirado por la alta sociedad parisiense, contó (...)

Sumérjase en el electrizante mundo de Mert & Marcus, el dúo fotográfico cuyo genio y energía está detrás de la imagen pública de algunas de las marcas y personalidades más relevantes de nuestro tiempo, de Miu Miu a Angelina Jolie y de Givenchy a Gisele Bündchen. En formato compacto, basado en (...)

A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist's (...)

"You may have the universe," composer Giuseppe Verdi once said, "if I can have Italy." Back in the mid-19th century, Verdi's emotive language appealed to the patriotic sentiments of an emergent nation state. After decades of struggle and bloodshed, the movement known as Risorgimento triumphed with (...)

French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including (...)