Libros

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's (...)

Private Gardens: Design Secrets to Creating Beautiful Outdoor Living Spaces features nearly forty spectacular garden designs from around the world. Each garden is beautifully photographed and includes detailed diagrams and construction and planning schemes, with practical advice from professional (...)

Un crimen terrible sacude la apacible comarca de la Terra Alta: los propietarios de su mayor empresa, Gráficas Adell, aparecen asesinados tras haber sido sometidos a atroces torturas. Se encarga del caso Melchor Marín, un joven policía y lector voraz llegado desde Barcelona cuatro años atrás, con (...)

After twenty years in his flower shop in Saint-Avertin, florist Jean-François Boucher-Odent left the family business to follow his heart and focus solely on his art, without having to put energy in the obligatory commercial flower work. And where better to do this than at the stunning Château de (...)

Young Rembrandt concentrates on the first ten years of the career of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). Born in Leiden, he trained there with Isaac van Swanenburg and in Amsterdam with Pieter Lastman. After a short stay in Amsterdam he returned to Leiden and set up a studio where he began his (...)

Italian writer and horticulturist Umberto Pasti's passion for the wild flora of Tangier and its surrounding region led him to create his world-famous garden, Rohuna, where he has transplanted thousands of plants rescued from construction sites with the aid of men from the village.Planted between (...)

Drawings by Francisco de Goya presents the fruits of the research undertaken for the publication of a new catalogue raisonne of Goya's drawings, a subject to which the Museo del Prado has always devoted particular attention and which is one of the keystones of its collection. Since the publication (...)

Autor del polémico Breve tratado sobre la estupidez humana, Ricardo Moreno nos presenta en Los griegos y nosotros un entusiasta alegato en favor de una educación de horizonte y empeño humanistas, últimamente tan amenazada por una pedagogía de retórica populista y mediática , en palabras de Carlos (...)

Seis semanas antes de ser colgado en Núremberg por crímenes de guerra, el mariscal de campo Wilhelm Keitel, jefe del Alto Mando de Adolf Hitler durante el conflicto, dejó escritas unas memorias de extraordinario valor para todos aquellos estudiosos del periodo.Este libro es una visión privilegiada (...)

Karl Lagerfeld has photographed lavish editorials for the French fashion magazine Numéro for the past 15 years, capturing muses like Cara Delevingne and Linda Evangelista in an array of haute couture. The book Numéro Couture, by Lagerfeld and Numéro's founder, Babeth Djian, celebrates the (...)

Este libro relata la épica aventura de la infantería española desde los tiempos del Gran Capitán hasta la disolución formal de los tercios dos siglos después. La pluma de José Javier Esparza y el pincel de José Ferre Clauzel, como si ambos hubieran estado allí, nos explican cómo se construyó el (...)

La pintura de 1200 a 1500 es un espejo de su tiempo, marcado por una profunda religiosidad y tendencias progresivas, por la prosperidad económica, así como por las devastadoras guerras y epidemias. A una perspectiva religiosa se unen temas seculares y esfuerzos para lograr una forma realista de (...)

In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the Atlas of Furniture Design, the definitive, encyclopedic overview of the history of modern furniture design. Featuring over 1700 objects by more than 500 designers and 121 manufacturers, it includes approximately 2800 images ranging from detailed (...)