Libros

¿Se puede "creer" en lo que muestra una fotografía? ¿Por qué una fotografía es algo más que el conjunto de su temática? ¿Cómo abordan la historia los fotógrafos? ¿Por qué es la fotografía un arte melancólico? Una obra de referencia para cualquiera que desee saber más acerca de una de las formas (...)

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. (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Bronces Ibéricos. Una historia por contar nace como una puesta al día del estudio sobre los bronces figurados en las sociedades íberas (siglos IV al I a. n. e). A través de contribuciones diversas nos introducimos en espacios heterogéneos, que se complementan y enriquecen teniendo siempre a la (...)

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, (...)

El 30 de junio de 1898 un pequeño destacamento militar español quedó sitiado por una fuerza diez veces superior en la iglesia de la localidad filipina de Baler. A pesar del terrible fuego de cañón y fusilería al que fueron sometidos y sin posibilidad de reponer víveres, afrontaron valerosamente el (...)

The power of photography lies in its ability to ignite emotions across barriers of language and culture. This selection of iconic images, compiled by pioneering collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman, celebrates the photograph's unique capacity for sensibility. Peter has been championing the (...)