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Un país, Angola. Un safari de cuarenta días y la decisión en firme de recorrer veinte mil kilómetros en avión con dieciséis aterrizajes, cuatro mil kilómetros en jeep y catorce días subidos en los árboles. Soportar seis kilos menos de peso, mucha suciedad y muchas emociones...Aquellos safaris, ya (...)

Empress Maria Theresa pursued a singular approach when it came to cultural policy. She sought reform not only in education, but also in the field of art, and commissioned a wealth of works from painters, sculptors, and other artists in Austria and abroad. These reform efforts brought about an (...)

From painterly portrait studies to mythological epics, love stories to picturesque ruins, French art of the baroque and the rococo in the seventeenth century is dazzlingly seductive. This book presents seventy major works of French drawing from the Albertina that highlight the range and power of (...)

The shaping of the body through clothing has repeatedly played a major role across the centuries; in Europe changes in fashion were always accompanied by changes to the cut of clothing and hence to the silhouette of the body. This lavishly illustrated volume delights the reader with illustrations (...)