Libros

From a leading art instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, a complete survey of drawing as an art form covering its history, materials, and key techniques, alongside step-by-step demonstrations.Foundations of Drawing is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the (...)

Based on an extremely rare (albeit slightly incomplete) illustrated version of the Spanish Army's order of battle as it existed in the year 1800, this work cannot but form a most unusual addition to the collection of anyone interested in military uniforms (or, more specifically, the Revolutionary (...)

This publication is mainly devoted to the Marks IX and XVI of Supermarine Spitfire. The 20 page, A4 size booklet contains 15 sheets of 1:72 scale drawings with specifications of external changes in various versions of the aircraft and color profiles of 5 planes, all with English and Polish (...)

The last battleship of the German Kriegsmarine was ceremonially launched on 1 April 1939. After the failure of the operation Rheinübung and sinking of the battleship Bismarck during an Atlantic rally (May 1941) Hitler banned planning such operations. A decision to send Tirpitz to Norway was made. (...)

This vessel, which was to become the most famous Japanese aircraft carrier and the symbol of the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy aviation, was initially built as a battlecruiser. Only as the result of the resolutions of the Washington Naval Treaty the Akagi ( Red Castle , the name of a Japanese (...)

Monografía que tiene como objetivo el conocimiento del proceso creativo de la pintura bajomedieval, desde los elementos más puramente materiales, como las técnicas, prácticas y materias primas, hasta aquellos aspectos más intangibles y personales relativos al aprendizaje, la capacidad de diseño o (...)

Hubo un tiempo no muy lejano en que los cuentos de hadas no estaban destinados a los niños. Los relatos incluidos en este mítico volumen, recogidos por Angela Carter para la editorial Virago, donde durante años han sido uno de sus longsellers, tampoco son para niños. En ellos encontramos sangre, (...)

Xavier Gassió hizo la mili el último año de la última colonia española y vivió para contarlo. Y para fotografiarlo. Más de cuarenta años después nos ofrece sus recuerdos, así como más de mil imágenes que atestiguan un mundo que hoy nos parece exótico por desaparecido e incluso una visión (...)

Switzerland is set in the heart of Europe, and as such is host to a vast number of both passenger and freight workings, with locomotives from various different countries visiting. The Swiss railways are made up of lots of different small companies, which run on both standard and narrow gauge, the (...)

Anna Tuori is one of the most original and versatile Finnish painters of her generation. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of her continually evolving work and her playful, intriguing, and melancholic oddball world, the center of which is always painting. The book includes a (...)

Dans la vallée du Loir se dresse le château du Lude, forteresse médiévale sertie entre ses tours crénelées. Mais au Lude, l'histoire ne s'est pas arrêtée au Moyen Âge : cinq siècles ont façonné ce château pour lui donner l'allure d'un palais à l'image de la puissance de ses occupants et de la (...)