Libros

Qui n'a jamais rencontré ce Louis XIV en majesté au fil des pages de ses livres d'écolier ? Qui n'a désormais associé le Roi-Soleil à cette effigie grandiose, symbole du pouvoir absolu et de la magnificence de la cour de Versailles ? L'auteur de ce tableau, le Catalan Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), (...)

Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinubung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured (...)

Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur (...)

La victoria soviética :de la caída de Rumanía a Berlín y Praga

Akiko Kimura forma parte de una nueva generación de fotógrafos japoneses que trabajan el paisaje con extrema sensibilidad. Su obra se ha expuesto en galerías de Japón y del extranjero. El título de la serie "i", es el sonido /ai/ que es ?I? en inglés y significa ?amor? en japonés. Al contemplar (...)

This book presents magnificent artifacts collected by an aristocratic family of fabulous wealth. It shows goldsmiths' work and jewelry of extraordinary quality, dating from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. These include some of the finest creations of their time by artists such as (...)