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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 (...)

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 (...)