Libros

El tesoro de los Quimbayas es uno de los conjuntos emblemáticos del Museo de América. Los proyectos de investigación contemplan tanto el análisis arqueometalúrgico como la investigación sobre otros múltiples aspectos: histórico, iconográfico, cronológico, sonoro, biológico, químico, etc. para (...)

Una straordinaria raccolta di quattrocento opere d'arte realizzate da oltre centoventi artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo, dalla fine del Settecento ai giorni nostri, offre l'occasione per indagare il tema del colore.Dal rosso di Lucio Fontana al blu di Yves Klein, il volume ripercorre (...)

This second, expanded and fully revised edition of the groundbreaking book African MiGs examines the role and deployment history of MiG- and Sukhoi-designed fighters as well as their Chinese derivatives in no fewer than 23 air forces in Sub-Saharan Africa. This first volume, covering 12 air arms (...)

(as well as their Chinese-built Chengdu and Shenyang variants) in sub-Saharan Africa, Volume 2 covers 11 additional air forces, from Madagascar to Zimbabwe. This encyclopaedic account is so far the only one of its kind to provide detailed analysis of aerial conflicts including those waged between (...)

A major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed by invitation one or more works of significant plants in the three Sydney botanic gardens. This collection is published to celebrate the bicentenary this year of the (...)

A principios del siglo XVII surgieron en Europa las cartillas de dibujo, unos materiales pedagógicos que revolucionaron la metodología tradicional de la enseñanza de esta disciplina, permitiendo a artistas, aficionados y particulares progresar sin la presencia de un maestro, sobre todo en la (...)

The bravura Impressionist works of the premier Spanish painter of a century ago, showcased and explored in detail by an international team of renowned scholarsJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) was the leading Spanish painter of his day, world-famous when Picasso was still struggling to (...)

This is a book series for the fith edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale. A unique and limited collection edited by the curatorial team of The Poetics of Reason: a sparkling intellectual reflection from a three-year investigation on architectural rationality. With stunning visual references, (...)

Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), grandmasters of the comics medium, present a book often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time: From Hell.Two master storytellers. Five unsolved murders. A hundred years of mystery. One sprawling conspiracy, one metropolis on the (...)

Desde sus primeras manifestaciones en las catacumbas de Roma y hasta nuestros días, los relatos evangélicos han sido una de las principales fuentes de inspiración para la historia del arte occidental y su conocimiento es indispensable para entender dos milenios de arte, incluyendo gran parte del (...)

Esta monografía aborda, desde diversos ámbitos de conocimiento, epigrafía, autores clásicos, arqueología, un estudio sobre la figura de uno de los príncipes Julio Claudios más queridos por los contemporáneos de su tiempo, así como por la historiografía posterior, Germánico Julio César. Germánico (...)