Libros

¿Podrías reconocer a los personajes de la mitología clásica que aparecen representados en las obras de arte?Esta guía te ayudará a conocer y reconocer a todos estos seres míticos. En cada entrada ilustrada organizada alfabéticamente encontrarás un breve texto que narra la historia de cada (...)

¿Reconocerías a los personajes de la iconografía cristiana que aparecen representados en las obras de arte? Esta guía, organizada alfabéticamente, te ayudará a reconocer a los personajes y conocer las peripecias de su vida. Cada entrada incluye datos básicos, una ilustración y un texto que nos (...)

El sargento vélite de granaderos de la Guardia Imperial Adrien Bourgogne fue un veterano de las campañas de Napoleón curtido en las batallas de Jena, Pultusk, Eylau, Eilsberg, Friedland, Essling, Wagram, Somosierra, Benavente, Smolensko, Borodinó, Krasnoi, el Berézina, Lutzen y Bautzen. Pero nada (...)

Roma, anni Ottanta.Tra cartoni animati, videoclip, film e telefilm, il protagonista di questo romanzo si crea un immaginario confuso e colorato. La televisione commerciale, vera grande babysitter dei nati in quei favolosi anni, scandisce i gusti e le scelte di questo bambino "metrosessuale" che (...)

Dans la première partie de la campagne de Russie, celle qui mène Napoléon jusqu'à Moscou, une bataille a particulièrement retenu l'attention des historiens. Pour la première fois depuis le passage du Niémen, la Grande Armée parvient en effet à affronter l'armée russe qui s'était jusqu'alors (...)

¿Para qué sirve la historia? era la punzante pregunta a la que Marc Bloch pretendió dar respuesta en su Apologie pour l'histoire en 1941 y que dio inicio a su flamante reflexión sobre el oficio del historiador (Le metier de l'historien). Es que la inquietud por la utilidad del conocimiento (...)

Big bang alude a una explosión, a un movimiento expansivo que une ámbitos y materiales muy diversos. Su autor, Óscar Mariné Brandi, es un incansable fabricante de imágenes educado al ritmo de la música de los años sesenta y setenta, que conoce y emplea las estrategias visuales del cine, el cómic, (...)

This title presents an informative and thoroughly illustrated introduction to the tradition of French landscape painting. Filled with glorious full-colour illustrations, "Capturing Nature's Beauty" highlights the key moments of the French landscape tradition from its emergence in the 1600s to its (...)

Los textos responden a una pregunta muy sencilla. ¿Qué tiene un coleccionista de arte contemporáneo en la cabeza?

As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in the history of art. From Egyptian tomb paintings and battle scenes on Greek vases by anonymous artists, to depictions of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus by the great (...)

En una noche de octubre de 1392, Hamet, médico del hospital de Granada, es requerido para asistir a un moribundo que presenta lesiones cutáneas similares a las producidas por quemaduras. El paciente es el Rey y se sospecha que ha sido envenenado. La aparición del cadáver de un indigente con (...)

Malaguzzi's work describes the significance of food and feasts through the ages and discusses how artists have created allegories of gluttony and odes to the sense of taste, using, for example, artfully positioned fruits and vegetables in the still-life genre in painting.

This fiery and influential book, available for the first time in English, presents an Italian Futurist's radical ideas about art and architecture Futurist Painting Sculpture (Plastic Dynamism), a truly radical book by Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), claimed a central position in artistic debates of (...)

Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid 1915-Galapagar 2007) fue uno de los artistas más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en España. Conocido fundamentalmente como pintor, también destacó en el campo de la escultura y la obra gráfica. Sus formas abstractas son más el fruto de un proceso de indagación y (...)

Gods and Heroes in Art aims to help museum patrons and art lovers recognize the legendary characters of classical antiquity in art. The characters are each described in entries summarizing their distinctive stories, their special attributes, and the ways in which artists have depicted them. Each (...)

In this richly illustrated volume Rosa Giorgi argues that because much of Western art depicts key events, leaders, and practices in the history of the Christian Church, knowledge of that history is critical to an appreciation of many of our great masterpieces. Giorgi begins by analyzing artistic (...)

What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These terms--and more than 100 others--are explained and illustrated in Looking at Paintings.First published in 1992, Looking at Paintings--now thoroughly revised and expanded--presents concise and readable explanations of the technical terms (...)

This is a magnificently illustrated and enlightening journey through the visual portrayal of love and sexuality in Western art. Even in the modern world where explicit imagery is manifest, an erotic painting from half a millennia ago can still manage to create a sensation. This new addition to the (...)

This is the latest volume in the acclaimed series that depicts medicine as depicted in art throughout history. This sumptuously illustrated volume offers a visual history of the depiction of illness and healing in Western culture, ranging from Egyptian wall carvings to medieval manuscripts and from (...)

Nature and Its Symbols is the fifth volume in the series A Guide to Imagery, reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers, fruits, and animals of the earth, air, and water, as well as fantastical creatures such as centaurs, (...)

Throughout the Middle Ages, sacred Christian art had two objectives: to express veneration for God and to provide illustrative lessons on the Christian faith to a largely illiterate population. Continuing in the spirit of the other books in this series, Old Testament Figures in Art compiles entries (...)

Martinez wrote the Discourses toward the end of his life as a well-travelled professional artist who had studied and worked in Italy and the major artistic and literary centres of Spain; his ideas were especially enriched by his participation in the elevated cultural life of his native Aragonese (...)

Presented in very clear and accessible language, "Roman Art" offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. Traditional studies of Roman art have sought to identify an indigenous style distinct from Greek art and in the process have neglected the (...)

From Agatha to Zeno, Francis of Assisi to Mary Magdalene, Saints in Arti presents the characteristic features of more than one hundred saints often encountered in sacred Western art. Each saint is introduced by a practical list of his or her unique attributes. Entries also include notes on the (...)

From antiquity, when the gods and goddesses were commonly featured in works of art, through to the twentieth century, when Surrealists drew on archetypes from the unconscious, artists have embedded symbols in their works. As with previous volumes in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this (...)