Libros

La belleza tranquila pero espectacular del paisaje mallorquín, y la arquitectura fortificada y decorativa de las casas y los palacios situados en aquél, cautivaron la imaginación de muchos viajeros. Marella Caracciolo nos transporta a través de la isla en un viaje arquitectónico y literario, desde (...)

El arte clásico del Himalaya, principalmente las esculturas en bronce de inspiración budista o hinduista, ha sido reconocido y apreciado hace tiempo por el mundo occidental. En cambio, las máscaras tribales de aquella región, que responden a antiguas tradiciones animistas propias de grupos étnicos (...)

Jean-Michel Basquiat's self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition to some 50 specific portraits of himself, we can also see his series of likenesses of African-American men as concealed reproductions of the artist. Not least because (...)

Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies and primarily designed for the defence of trade, (...)

An overview of Chinese culture, particularly visions of life and the afterlife, told through feast imagery from three historically transformative dynastiesFeasting was an important social and ritual activity in China beginning in the Bronze Age, and cuisine retains a strong cultural significance to (...)