Libros

Como su propio nombre indica, "Del construir" se centra en el mundo de la arquitectura, de la producción de las obras, de quienes las concibieron y realizaron, de las técnicas usadas, de los materiales empleados. Ahora bien, en el Medievo todo esto se entendía de una manera bastante diferente a la (...)

The most remarkable fact about Napoleon's political career was that there was never any separation in his heart or mind between France and Italy. On the pediment of the Carrousel Arc de Triomphe, the French and Italian coats of arms are engraved at the same height. The Emperor always wore the Order (...)

Jasper Johns (b.1930) is regarded as one of the most influential American artists of the last sixty years. When he broke onto the New York art scene in the 1950s, Johns and his lover Robert Rauschenberg established a decisive new direction in an art world that had been dominated by the Abstract (...)

The Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examines the major developments in German (...)

Un viaggio alla scoperta dell'arte genovese del Sei-Settecento e di quella che rappresenta non soltanto un'importante scuola pittorica, ma una raffinata e poliedrica civilt artistica Il Barocco a Genova non va visto solo come fase di sviluppo di una scuola regionale o come declinazione locale di un (...)

Este libro es el resultado de la pasión por un territorio y su gente. Hay quien admira la naturaleza como si fuera algo separado del hombre, pero este paisaje que vemos no sería igual sin la presencia de los seres humanos que lo han habitado. Ordesa es el resultado de miles de años de interacción (...)

From oranges, lemons and limes to mandarins, citrons and pomelos, citrus fruits occupy a unique place in global cultural history. With associations of health and wealth, adventure and exploration, they appear in the art, literature, religion, cuisine and science of societies around the world and (...)