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Un recopilatorio de maravillosas obras de arte de autores como Dalí, Tàpies, Picasso, Casas o Rusiñol y una apasionante investigación sobre las mujeres que inspiraron a estos grandes artistas. El ar……続きを見る

Realizadas entre 1819 y 1823 sobre los muros de dos salas de la Quinta llamada del Sordo, las Pinturas negras proporcionan una imagen del mundo sombrío y del mundo luminoso que siempre ha sido carac……続きを見る

Über ein Jahrtausend lang, von seiner Gründung im Jahre 330 n. Chr. bis zu seinem Untergang im Jahre 1453, war das Byzantinische Reich eine Wiege von künstlerischem Überfluss, die erst jetzt wiedere……続きを見る

From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers. The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, ……続きを見る

Albert Pinkham Ryder, along with Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, is recognized as one of the great "ancestors" of American painting, although he was largely unknown in his own time. Twentieth-centu……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL 2017, ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY CATEGORY This book is a collaborative project conceived by two old friends inspired by Paris. The writer, Robin Bower, and the artist, Chr……続きを見る

Maler, Designer, Hersteller von seltsamen Gegenständen, Autor und Filmemacher: Dali wurde der Berühmteste der Surrealisten. Bunuel, Lorca, Picasso und Breton hatten einen großen Einfluss auf seine K……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contem……続きを見る

Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widow……続きを見る

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relati……続きを見る

Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) in light of early modern traditions of el……続きを見る

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection……続きを見る

In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works. Wr……続きを見る

Josef August Beringers Buch 'Studien zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte' ist eine umfassende Abhandlung über die Entwicklung der deutschen Kunst im Laufe der Jahrhunderte. Beringer analysiert nicht nur d……続きを見る

Giorgio Vasaris Buch 'Künstler der Renaissance' ist ein Meisterwerk der Kunstgeschichte, das die Werke von einigen der bedeutendsten Künstler der Renaissance, darunter Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinc……続きを見る

Richard Muther's monumentales Werk "Geschichte der Malerei" besteht aus insgesamt 5 Bänden, die einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklung der Malerei von den frühesten Anfängen bis zur Modern……続きを見る

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, important German theater artists have created plays and productions about unification. Some have challenged how German history is written, while o……続きを見る

Kniga “Ogledi o Starom Egiptu” predstavlja značajnu studiju posvećenu analizi šireg spektra tema iz oblasti egiptologije koja u velikoj meri doprinosi kritičkom razumevanju različitih aspekata prošl……続きを見る

Jacob Burckhardt's Werk 'Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien' ist ein Meisterwerk der historischen Literatur, das sowohl den Inhalt als auch den Geist der Renaissance einfängt. Burckhardt präsenti……続きを見る

Jacob Burckhardt, ein renommierter Schweizer Historiker und Kulturphilosoph des 19. Jahrhunderts, präsentiert in seinem Werk 'Die wichtigsten Werke von Jacob Burckhardt' eine Sammlung seiner bahnbre……続きを見る

Emile Zolas 'Das Werk' ist ein Meisterwerk der französischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch, das in Form eines historischen Romans geschrieben ist, enthüllt die sozialen Missstände und pol……続きを見る

Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints - or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the……続きを見る

These in-depth, historical, and critical essays study the meaning of ornament, the role it played in the formation of modernism, and its theoretical importance between the mid-nineteenth century and……続きを見る

This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his "Character Heads." These are busts of human heads, highly unconventional for ……続きを見る

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was……続きを見る

Sumérgete en la vida y obra de Amedeo Modigliani, un artista talentoso apasionado por los retratos, los desnudos y la escultura que nada a contracorriente para desarrollar un arte único y propio, no……続きを見る

Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth c……続きを見る

This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study. The role, imp……続きを見る

Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A. McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering domestic art - the decorati……続きを見る

In contrast to earlier scholars who have seen Boccaccio's Famous Women as incoherent and fractured, Franklin argues that the text offers a remarkably consistent, coherent and comprehensible treatise……続きを見る