Libros

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his eraIn 18th-century Europe, while the old order reveled in the luxurious excesses of the Rococo style and the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of revolution, the shapeshifting libertine Giacomo Casanova seduced his way (...)

Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being the best in painting, Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. (...)

Cai Guo-Qiang (Quanzhou, provincia de Fujian, China, 1957) es uno de los artistas de mayor renombre internacional, un atrevido creador de novedosas formas artísticas (pintura con pólvora, pirotecnia e instalaciones) que siguen ampliando el concepto de experiencia cultural. Cai Guo-Qiang ha (...)

La mostra "Antonio Canova. Sculture, dipinti e incisioni dal Museo e dalla Gipsoteca di Possagno presentati ad Assisi" intende far conoscere sempre più al grande pubblico di quanti importanti ed inestimabili beni si componga il patrimonio culturale italiano, spingendolo anche a visitare tra le (...)

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 (...)

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's (...)

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 (...)

FASHIONPEDIA is a visual fashion dictionary covering all the technical terms from style to material to production with illustrations and infographics. It encompasses rich, extensive information and yet is easy to read. Whether you are an industry insider or a fashion connoisseur, FASHIONPEDIA is (...)

Intelligente, curioso, irrequieto, vagabondo, il pittore veronese Giovan Francesco Caroto fu operoso a Mantova, alla corte dei Gonzaga, sotto l'egida di Mantegna; a Milano, al servizio di Antonio Maria Visconti; a Casale Monferrato, alla corte del marchese Guglielmo Paleologo. Conobbe e apprezzò la (...)