Libros

Mujer apasionada, intelectual, avanzada a su tiempo y precursora del Romanticismo, Madame de Stael o Anne-Louise Germaine Necker vivio intensamente los mas importantes acontecimientos de la historia contemporanea francesa.

How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness, aggression or respect? Madam & Eve explores the female gaze as it focuses on other women.The authors an artist and a curator investigate the work of (...)

Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siècle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models (...)

Madeleine Castaing, antiquaire et décoratrice de renommée internationale, fut le mécène de nombreux peintres de l'Ecole de Paris et d'artistes de l'académie de la Grande Chaumière, ainsi que l'amie de nombreuses personnalités, elle a révolutionné le monde de la décoration. Madeleine Castaing (...)

Alla figura di Maria Maddalena, legata a eventi fondamentali della vita e della morte di Gesù di Nazareth, l'arte, la letteratura, il cinema hanno dedicato centinaia di opere, dando vita a capolavori che segnano, lungo la trama del tempo, l'arte stessa e i suoi sviluppi, interpretando il ruolo e i (...)

Made in Malines! Derrière ce titre qui résonne comme un label commercial se cache une marque ou plutôt toute une série de marques énigmatiques. Elles ont été apposées, autour de 1500, sur des statuettes communément appelées poupées malinoises : le M et le blason à trois pals de la ville de Malines (...)

The definitive monograph on iconic Parisian designer Madame Grès, seen by her peers as the tutelary genius of French haute couture.Renowned for her signature draping and innovative asymmetrical dresses, Madame Grès (1903-1993) was one of the leading fashion designers of twentieth-century Paris. (...)