Libros

Este séptimo volumen de la colección Los tipos iconográficos de la tradición cristiana es el primero de los seis de la mencionada colección que estará dedicado al Nuevo Testamento en el arte cristiano. Este primer volumen, dedicado de modo particular a figuras como Adán y Eva, Caín y Abel, Abrahán, (...)

Le officine di statuaria lignea dipinta attive a Napoli nel corso del Seicento crebbero rapidamente di numero e importanza grazie all'incessante richiesta di manufatti da parte di ordini religiosi ed esponenti della corte reale, che ne decretarono il successo. I traffici commerciali lungo le rotte (...)

Guía actual y completa sobre los vinos de nuestro país para conocer su historia, elaboración, conservación, etc., que incluye una detallada presentación y descripción de las diferentes denominaciones de origen y sus variedades

La lucha de muchos hombres y mujeres ha decidido el curso y la suerte de España en el ámbito de las armas. Cada uno de ellos ha contribuido, con sus logros y fracasos, a labrar nuestro país. Este libro recoge al menos una muestra, la que todo español debería conocer, de aquellos que, siendo o no (...)

El autor escribió la tesis doctoral del presente libro tras una ardua labor de investigación, bebiendo de fuentes documentales tales como extensas bibliografías de más de trescientas obras impresas,veinte manuscritos diversos, un apéndice documental de 149 números y otras fuentes diversas. Se (...)

La belleza de las provincias vascas, lo diseminado de su población, las costumbres de sus habitantes y, sobre todo, su idioma, exigen de este país especial y detenido estudio. De haber podido guiarse por su propio sentimiento, el autor de esta obra hubiera profundizado más en la historia de esta (...)

Han sido tantos y tan rápidos los cambios en los últimos tiempos respecto a lo que a locomoción y transporte terrestre se refiere, del que ha sido factor principal el caballo, que hablar de escritos relativos a los sistemas de doma y equitación, o tratados de los métodos que se llamaron de jineta y (...)

The Dornier Do 217 represented the refinement of German twin-engine bomber design, a progression from the earlier Do 17. From 1941, the Do 217 became the mainstay of the Luftwaffe's bomber arm in the West, equipping four Gruppen for operations over Britain. It carried out day and night attacks on (...)

A lo largo de los últimos veinte años, la obra de Cinthia Marcelle no ha dejado de transitar entre una gran diversidad de formatos y escalas. Sus instalaciones, películas y fotografías, fruto de la colaboración con trabajadores, músicos o artistas, muestran una preocupación constante por las (...)

La obsidiana, roca oscura, espejo negro y objeto de fascinación para los seres humanos desde tiempos inmemoriales, es la protagonista de "El espejo humeante", la exposición organizada por el Museo Nacional de Antropología sobre el artista Miguel Ángel Blanco. La cámara de las maravillas recreada (...)

In 1634 the Thirty Years' War had taken a spectacular turn. The great protagonists of 1630, King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and Generals Tilly and Wallenstein were dead.The Swedish army was disoriented without the presence of its charismatic king. Chancellor Oxenstierna was to preserve his legacy, (...)

This 400-page volume is the first publication to explore in depth the painting of British artist Anish Kapoor (born 1934). It offers a unique insight into a language that has increasingly been a focus over the last 10 years, but which has also been an integral part of his studio practice since his (...)

The League of Cambrai was an alliance formed in December 1508 by the main European powers with the purpose of halting the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the ongoing conflicts in what came to be known as the Italian Wars and was fought between 1508 and 1516. (...)

In the early hours of the 24th of February 1525, under the walls of the city of Pavia, the best Imperial fought against one of the largest French armies every to have invade the Italian states. Armies led by the young Francis Ist of France and the Emperor Charles Vth fought for the coveted prize of (...)

The Rif War in rugged northern Morocco is remembered for romantic films and novels about the French Foreign Legion, such as Beau Geste. In reality, the French intervention, although very important, was late and secondary in importance to that of the Spanish. Spain, had been fighting in North Africa (...)

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Army. In Russia, the American Bell P-39 Airacobra (...)

In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new (...)

This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts. It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well as the best of more recent scholarship, to (...)

Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the most fascinating in art history. This publication brings Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) encounter with the Cretan-born old master Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco (...)

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 (...)

Una historia de periodistas, truhanes, espi as, afrancesados, buscavidas, jueces, canallas, masones, polici as, traidores, bonapartistasy algu n que otro patriota...en el Peru , Buenos Aires, Londres, Madrid, Filadelfia y Astorga de las Guerras Napoleo nicas

Oltre ottanta opere provenienti da collezioni italiane ed estere. Alcune notissime, altre inedite o meritevoli di una riscoperta. Dipinti e disegni di colui che, documenti alla mano, fu quanto di più vicino a un allievo in senso stretto il Caravaggio ebbe mai. Stiamo parlando di Battistello (...)