Libros

Il catalogo della mostra parigina (Louvre) e milanese (Castello Sforzesco), incentrato sulla scultura, ma in continuo raffronto con la pittura e le arti grafiche, illustra i temi cardine dei maggiori capolavori realizzati in Italia dalla seconda metà del Quattrocento all'inizio del Cinquecento. Il (...)

The battleships of the Kriegsmarine are only four vessels in total, which they managed to put into operational service in 1935-1941. The first two of those, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, did not make as spectacular combat career as the other two. So far, no extensive memories of seamen sailing them (...)

"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 (...)

Manuel Salvador Carmona (1734-1820) fue el más destacado grabador de la España ilustrada. Desde su formación en París como primer pensionado de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando para el estudio de la talla dulce en la rama de retratos e historia, su compromiso con el arte (...)