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In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler (1834 1903) reinvented himself through the medium of watercolor. At the time, excellence in watercolor was most often associated with British artists, and most notably with the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775 1851). Whistler's embrace of watercolor allowed the (...)

If weddings are the most lavish events in many parts of the world, in Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, it is funerals. Funeral celebrations can be flamboyant occasions, particularly those honoring prominent people. Artworks of many kinds are created to commemorate the dead from mortuary sculptures (...)

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 (...)

Le vicende drammatiche della travagliata vita di Caravaggio, uno dei più formidabili pittori della storia dell'arte di tutti i tempi, sono ripercorse in questo volume, aggiornato alla luce delle ultime scoperte, edito in occasione dei 450 anni dalla sua nascita documentata a Milano nel 1571. Sono (...)

The Kuyu are an ethnic group who live in northern Congo-Brazzaville, on the banks of the River Congo, in a part of Equatorial Africa that has remained only marginally influenced by Moslem encroachment and Western colonialism. Kuyu art can be broadly broken down into three styles, the first two of (...)

La obra Ben Shahn. De La No Conformidad forma parte del catálogo de Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía. Fue fundada en la decada de los ochenta por El Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía en Madrid. El catálogo de la editorial asciende a más de doscientas obras. Ministerio de Educación, (...)