Libros de ARTE EN GENERAL

Saints are often depicted with particular objects that played a dramatic role in their lives, and these objects or characteristics have become symbolic of the saints and can be used ...

Hessel Miedema, Kinship and Network in Karel van Mander; Axel Marx, Why Social Network Analysis Might Be Relevant for Art Historians: a Management Perspective; Koenraad Brosens, Can Tapestry Research Benefit ...

Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have been made to define beauty in art and life, especially with regard to women's bodies and faces. Facing Beauty examines ...

Between birth and death, many of life's most critical moments occur in hospital, and they deserve to take place in surroundings that match their significance. In this spirit, from the ...

Ce livre propose daborder lhistoire de lart sous un angle vivant et inédit : les ateliers dartistes. De Léonard de Vinci à Jeff Koons, latelier est le lieu unique où ...

How have artists across the millennia responded to warfare? In this uniquely wide-ranging book, Theodore Rabb blends military history and the history of art to search for the answers. He ...

David Hockney's exuberant work is widely loved and widely praised, but he is also an incisive and original thinker on art. Based on a series of conversations between Hockney and ...

The rich history of the Christian church - with its centuries of dramas, splendours, achievements, and controversies - has long provided a deep source of inspiration for artists. Our own ...

Throughout history, artists have often taken their inspiration from religious sources, stories, and imagery, especially from episodes centered on the miracles or martyrdom of Christian saints. In our present age, ...

Portraiture is an enduring genre that has captivated artists and viewers for hundreds of years. From the late 15th through the early 19th century, artists continued to find new ways ...

Blanc, coloré ou huilé, découpé, déchiré, malmené ou récupéré, tramé ou filigrané, le papier est un acteur à part entière du dessin. Cette exposition et son catalogue traitent du papier ...

Rome publication is designed in parallel to the major international exhibition of the same name, produced by the Museum of Civilization in Quebec, the multicultural richness of Italy. It presents ...

La collezione numismatica di Banca Carige può essere considerata a buon diritto una delle più importanti raccolte al mondo di monete genovesi e liguri, ampia per numero di esemplari posseduti ...

The role of the frame in art can refer not only to a material frame bordering an image, but also to a conceptual frame - a text, for instance, which ...

150 anni fa nasceva l'Italia. In occasione delle celebrazioni in programma per festeggiare questo storico anniversario, un volume - la cui pubblicazione accompagna una grande esposizione ospitata alla Reggia di ...

Since the first funerary statues were placed in the first sepulchres, the ideas of death and the afterlife have always held a prominent place at the heart of the art ...

Hay lugares ante los cuales el hombre ha experimentado durante milenios temor y espanto: montañas, océanos, bosques, desiertos, volcanes. Inhóspitos, hostiles, desolados, evocan la muerte, humillan con su amplitud, amenazan ...

With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire's vast range of artistic splendours that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned ...

Maria Vittoria Brugnoli, libero docente in storia dell'arte, ha svolto una lunga attività nei ruoli del Ministero dei Beni Culturali, già Direzione Generale delle Antichità e Belle Arti, in qualità ...

Este conciso texto es un libro vivaz que aborda algunos aspectos que facilitan la fácil comprensión de la pintura, ya sea de ciertos temas populares tratados, así como los distintos ...