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¿Qué angustia mortal tiene Leonardo da Vinci? ¿Por qué no clavaron un asno a la cruz? ¿Debe mentir un monarca para poder gobernar? ¿Por qué ha tenido Miguel Ángel una disputa con el Papa? ¿Gira el S……続きを見る

This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun. Ad……続きを見る

En 1908, CAMILLE, jeune artiste-peintre en devenir, vit dans la misogynie générale de ce début de XXème siècle. Le décès de son père, un enlèvement, la tentative d'un mariage forcé, une expo ratée, ……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Cu……続きを見る

Roughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the ima……続きを見る

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London, it h……続きを見る

Five autobiographical stories and a novel-allusion about love and posthumous life; written by a woman, in Russia, about the domestic male material. 続きを見る

This book turns a compelling new lens on thinking about the history of Paris and photography. The invention of photography changed how history could be written. But the now commonplace assumptions--……続きを見る

This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected writers, artists, architects, magazines and groups from Poland, Belgiu……続きを見る

A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. J……続きを見る

The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context is a challenging exploration of the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the Ger……続きを見る

Taking on the myth of France's creative exhaustion following World War II, this collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars, whose research offers English readers a rich a……続きを見る

Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experienc……続きを見る

This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe, a pivotal member of Marie-Antoinette’s inner circle. Drawing extensively……続きを見る

If, as the famous saying goes, you really are what you eat, then Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a consummate painter of the human soul. This artist was a master draftsman whose finely wrought c……続きを見る

Impressionism has always been one of the publics favourite styles of art and Impressionist works continue to enchant beholders with their amazing play of colours and forms. This book offers a well-c……続きを見る

Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary,……続きを見る

Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1925–1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtaposit……続きを見る

Il giovane Marco Nava, nuovo talento ferrarese, promotore di un astrattismo originale contemporaneo e di recupero di certa stagione del primo novecento esordisce ora anche in ambito strettamente let……続きを見る

Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how……続きを見る

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventiona……続きを見る

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international response to the cultural policies of National Socialist ……続きを見る

In late nineteenth-century France, when Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution had finally begun to permeate French culture and society, several academic artists turned to a relatively new sub-genre……続きを見る

Many revolutions originated from the intense desire to spread religion. For example, the French Revolution was because of religion. The country was mainly Catholic so to be French means to be Cathol……続きを見る

This book is the first detailed investigation to focus on the late medieval use of Tree of Jesse imagery, traditionally a representation of the genealogical tree of Christ. In northern Europe, from ……続きを見る

Protagonista sempre raffinatissimo tecnicamente (una neometafisica o neopop anche molto "molto Personal..." di lunga data a Ferrara citta d'arte e non solo, il Maestro d'arte Daniele Carlettinasce a……続きを見る

This book with introduction and annotations written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Jan van Eyck. Jan van Eyck (b. 1390 –1441) is one of the most important painter……続きを見る

One of the wonderful traditions of Christmas is the Nativity. But you don't have to be Christian or a regular church-goer to love these wonderful displays. The creativity and artistry speaks to all ……続きを見る

Im "Cicerone" schildert der Autor die italienische Kunstwelt von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Die Absicht des Verfassers geht dahin, eine Übersicht der wichtigeren Kunstwerke Italiens zu geben, wel……続きを見る

Keen to learn but short on time? Find out everything you need to know about the life and work of Michelangelo in just 50 minutes with this straightforward and engaging guide! Michelangelo is one of ……続きを見る