Libros

Starting her 516 day long deployment from Gotenhafen on 3 July 1940, Komet was one of the Kriegsmarine's raiders. She was a former freighter which had been converted into an auxiliary cruiser (Hilfskreuzer) in order to attack Allied shipping. Reaching the Pacific Ocean with the help of Soviet (...)

This magnificent new volume presents works of art from the fabled collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans (1674-1723), including masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Correggio, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt, bringing them together for the first time since the collection's sale and (...)

World War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on both sides of the conflict that would radically change the nature of warfare, from jet aircraft to the ballistic missile and the atomic bomb. The greatest conflagration in history also saw the conception of the first (...)

El Museo del Prado propone una cuidada selección de obras en las que se invita a contemplar la realidad histórica del amor entre personas del mismo sexo y sus vicisitudes. Desde Antínoo hasta Caravaggio, el Prado hace visible la consideración y la fortuna en el arte y en la sociedad de su tiempo de (...)