Libros de ARTES GRAFICAS

From exquisite medieval bookbindings made of precious metals and jewels to the unique and highly imaginative creations of contemporary bookbinders, this book celebrates over 100 of the most beautiful bookbindings ...

Today Renaissance-era prints are typically preserved behind glass or in solander boxes in museums, but these decorative objects were once a central part of everyday life. Altered and Adorned is ...

A bookplate, or Ex Libris, is a small print for pasting inside the cover of a book to express ownership. The first books were highly valuable and prestigious objects to ...

From ornate floral patterns to cityscapes, the boldest book designs of the Golden Age are gathered here. Readers accustomed to todays more utilitarian bindings will find breathtaking images'gold leaf patterns ...

In this beautifully illustrated book, historian Marc Michael Epstein explores four magnificent and enigmatic illuminated haggadot manuscripts created for use at home services on Passover. They include the earliest known ...

La FUNDACIÓN LÁZARO GALDIANO emprendió hace tiempo con tesón el empeño honroso de catalogar y estudiar sus ricas colecciones artísticas y fondos bibliográficos que legó José Lázaro generosamente al Estado ...

Artists' postcards in an unsurpassable variety and quality Complete catalogue of postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte The Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, were founded in 1903 by architect Josef Hoffmann ...

Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history. Equally important, however, is understanding the basis upon which our current knowledge of these ...

- Includes new essays by an international team of leading scholars - Uniquely detailed cross-cultural overview of historical writing - Thematic chapters on the connection of history with inscriptions, philosophy, ...

En este volumen se reúnen dieciséis estudios de especialistas en documentos y manuscritos árabes de seis países diferentes de Europa y el Magreb. Tiene el propósito de presentar diferentes aproximaciones ...

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two ...

With extensive illustrated essays by Jeffrey Hamburger and Margaret Manion, accompanied by papers presented by sixteen further scholars in the field, this 256 page publication presents a rich range of ...

Dopo 'Treviso. Vedute e Cartografia dal XV al XIX secolo' esce il secondo volume che conclude la collana 'Carte di una città e del suo territorio', preziosa e monumentale opera ...

Volume 10 of the Utrecht Studies of the History of Cartography (EXPLOKART). The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) was for a period of 200 years responsible for the ...

From around 1250 to the close of the fifteenth century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably in French vernacular history manuscripts. This volume ...

"Codex Sinaiticus" is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two ...

Précieux et fragiles, les livres manuscrits demeurent protégés dans les réserves des bibliothèques, laissant méconnu tout un pan de l'histoire de l'art. En réunissant des exemples parfois célèbres, le plus ...

First in a proposed series of modern catalogues of the Bodleian Arabic holdings The Arabic manuscript collection now in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford includes some the ...

" La reliure contemporaine est un vaste univers dont on ne soupçonne pas les limites. Ses manifestations sont multiples et, même s'il existe des repères, il est facile de s'y ...

The 1860s are considered the 'Golden Age' of illustrated periodicals, a time when the 'knockabout' humour of the 1840s, which was dominated by illustrators such as Cruikshank, Doyle and Phiz, ...