Libros

A miles de kilómetros se escribió una narración hasta ahora desconocida del arte español contemporáneo. En la ciudad de Pittsburgh (Pensilvania) el mogul de la industria del acero, Andrew Carnegie, decidió financiar desde 1896 un sistema de acceso a la cultura para el pueblo americano, que incluía (...)

The formation of the American Watercolor Society in 1866 by a small, dedicated group of painters transformed the perception of what had long been considered a marginal medium. Artists of all ages, styles, and backgrounds took up watercolor in the 1870s, inspiring younger generations of (...)

Karl Kolbitz is an editor, based in Berlin. Growing up in the reunited German capital, he became interested in architecture and how the built environment shapes our lives. He worked with Mario Testino and Wolfgang Tillmans for many years before founding his own creative practice, which focuses on (...)

Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature (...)

This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names (...)

Carlo Dolci (1616 1687), arguably the greatest painter in 17th-century Florence, was admired and patronized by the city's leading families. Best known for his half-length and single-figure devotional pictures, Dolci was also a gifted painter of altarpieces and portraits. Written by a team of (...)

La Conferència Tramvia-Ciutat, celebrada durant el mes de març de 2017 a Barcelona, va reunir veus representants de les ciutats de Bordeaux, Zaragoza, Berlín, Sydney, Florència i Amsterdam, que van exposar la seva exitosa experiència en matèria tramviària. Aquest llibre, que repassa el passat, (...)

Entre las escuelas pictóricas españolas del siglo XVII la vallisoletana poseyó unas características que le otorgan identidad propia. Si bien la calidad técnica de sus pintores, de los que aquí se estudia una veintena, no alcanzó el nivel de los maestros madrileños o sevillanos, en su producción (...)