Libros

As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean colonies and the United States, the French (...)

Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinubung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured (...)

A visual delight, and a designer's dream-the decorative details of great European paintings transformed into beautiful two-dimensional patternsRichly embroidered robes. Intricate lace collars. Elaborately laid floor tiles. Delicately carved and modeled cornices and capitals. These are among the (...)

El libro repasa la trayectoria de Pere Casanovas y su intensa colaboración con artistas tan significativos como Antoni Tàpies, Jorge Oteiza, Pablo Palazuelo, Antoni Llena, Juan Muñoz, Frederic Amat, Perejaume, Josep Guinovart, Jaume Plensa, Antoni Miralda, Sergi Aguilar, Miquel Navarro, Robert (...)

his book looks at the origins of ancient Roman garden design and its Greek influences. It includes the use and design of private domestic gardens as well as those connected to theatres and temples. Gardens connected to mausolea are also included. It shows how rooms were designed to afford the best (...)

The army of the German Empire was born out of the once great Prussian army that Napoleon Bonaparte had humbled at the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt in 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars. The eventual defeat of Napoleon initiated a slow process of military reform that gained momentum during the pan-German (...)

During the 14th and 15th centuries military tactics in Europe underwent a period of sustained transformation of which the outcome was the rejuvenation of the footsoldier as the major tactical unit. One nation alone stands principally responsible for this development - the Swiss Confederation. For (...)

Seventeen homes demonstrate how Axel Vervoordt incorporates nature, art, and timeless interiors to create living spaces that encourage self-reflection, inspiration, and happiness. For a half century, Axel Vervoordt's vision has been defined by a continual quest for harmony, beauty, and the creation (...)

El XVIII es una época de gran importancia en la historia de España. El principio del siglo coincide con el cambio dinástico hispánico: al morir Carlos II, el último de los Habsburgo, deja en su testamento como sucesor a Felipe V, bisnieto de Felipe IV. Este último, el primero de los Borbones (...)

Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies and primarily designed for the defence of trade, (...)

One of the greatest Netherlandish artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) is best known today for his paintings of peasant life. Yet it was above all through his exceptional graphic work that he achieved widespread fame during the 16th century. This luxurious book offers readers the (...)

La presente obra de consulta se circunscribe única y exclusivamente a autores que desarrollan o desarrollaron su actividad profesional, de forma habitual, en Hollywood durante lo que llevamos de siglo XXI. La nómina de artistas es muy variada y va desde los grandes clásicos todavía en activo como (...)

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid, es una de las figuras históricas más enraizadas en el imaginario colectivo de los españoles, desde el Cantar de Mío Cid hasta la película de Anthony Mann protagonizada por Charlton Heston y Sofía Loren. Pero, ¿fue el Cid un héroe, un símbolo de la cristiandad cruzada, (...)

The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war even the inevitability of British participation arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about access (...)

Antoni Gaudí fusionó orientalismo, formas naturales, nuevos materiales y fe religiosa en una estética modernista única que colocó a Barcelona en el mapa global de la arquitectura. A través de cientos de ilustraciones a todo color, dibujos, planos y fotografías históricas, este libro presenta la (...)

Une soixantaine d'oeuvres issues de collections publiques et privées, qui fait la part belle aux portraits bretons et polynésiens, aux autoportraits mais aussi aux effigies inanimées. L'artiste dote ses modèles d'attributs particuliers ou les intègre dans des mises en scène évocatrices, en leur (...)

El lector encontrará en este libro una síntesis de la obra de Francisco de Goya como dibujante, al presentar más de doscientos dibujos creados a lo largo de toda su carrera artística, desde los incluidos en el Cuaderno italiano, hasta los realizados en Burdeos, ciudad en la que murió en 1828.Sus (...)

Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad; ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jamás conocido: Santa María de la Mar. Una (...)

Innovation, technology, and spectacle combine in wondrous works of decorative art and furniture that embody the splendor and luxury of the royal courts of EuropeAt once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in Making Marvels demonstrate how European royalty from the (...)

Mark Rothko: The Exhibitions at Pace is a highly-anticipated historical monograph on one of the greatest abstract painters of the twentieth-century.This exceptional volume encompasses an extraordinary retrospective of paintings, all presented at Pace Gallery, which illustrates Rothko's (...)

Now moving into its second decade, The Seaforth World Naval Review 2020 provides an affordable yet authoritative summary of global naval developments over the past twelve months. Regional surveys of fleet evolution and procurement by editor Conrad Waters are supplemented by in-depth articles from a (...)

A celebration of European painting from the thirteenth to the early twentieth century.The National Gallery, London, houses one of the finest collections of western European paintings in the world. Its extraordinary range includes masterpieces from the early medieval and Renaissance periods to (...)

Este libro reúne los dos textos que Ivo Andric , premio Nobel de Literatura en 1961, dedicó al gran pintor español Francisco de Goya. En el primero, el escritor resume la vida del pintor y analiza algunos de los aspectos biográficos más decisivos para entender el estilo y los temas en su obra. En (...)

Un compendio de imágenes evocadoras y poéticas en las que el artista investiga las formas de los objetos y su relación con la naturaleza.

Este libro presenta los resultados de una exhaustiva investigación sobre los pasos que llevan a la emergencia de un movimiento nacionalista catalán hacia finales del siglo XIX. Tras un breve repaso a las relaciones entre el ámbito catalán y el español en su conjunto desde el Bajo Medievo hasta la (...)

An enchanting jewel of a book. Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian AristocracyThe captivating story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon as told by a (...)