Libros

Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature (...)

This fiery and influential book, available for the first time in English, presents an Italian Futurist's radical ideas about art and architecture Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism), a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), claimed a central position in artistic debates of (...)

The reign of Louis XIV of France had a great impact on the course of European and world military history. The years 1643 to 1715 were a defining epoch for western military, diplomatic and economic matters. Most of those years were marked by conflict between major European powers and the Sun King's (...)

Más de 350 años despues de su muerte, el nombre de Velázquez no solo se asocia con un conjunto de obras prodigiosas o unos avatares biográficos, sino tambien a una riquísima historia de reinterpretaciones de su arte y de diálogos por parte de literatos, artistas, filósofos y una amplia variedad de (...)

Este libro nace de la inquietud de representar la belleza y el arte sevillano, la luz y el colorido de esta ciudad que enamora.El libro se divide en tres paseos, reales, para conocer la ciudad a través de las acuarelas pintadas durante cuatro años.La ruta Ocre, recorre el casco antiguo, (...)

Covers the full scope of the French East India Company's military prowess and colonial influence, from its global trade dominance to its strategic triumphs in India and Africa.From the early seventeenth century a multitude of French East or West India companies holding overseas trade monopolies and (...)