Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) created magnificent paintings, tapestry designs, prints and drawings over the course of his long and productive career. Women frequently appeared as the subjects of Goya's works, from his painted cartoons for the Royal Tapestry Factory to his stunning portraits of some of the most powerful women in Madrid. ...
Claudio Bravo is one of the world's greatest hyperrealist painters, but such a label is too simple and insufficient for his dramatic, enigmatic work. He is known for his use of color, which seems to become more extravagant with the passage of time, and the increasingly mysterious arrangement of objects in his photo-perfect still lifes.Arranged in ...
A beautifully produced monograph on one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, comprising a critical essay, a superb selection of colour plates, and invaluable documentation of the artist's writings, interviews, bibliography and exhibition history. Trained as an engineer, Alexander Calder made his first sculpture when he was twenty ...
"The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" is one of El Greco's most famous paintings, and a key work in the Mannerist tradition. Painted between 1586 and 1588 in the church of Santo Tome in Toledo, it was commissioned to commemorate the funeral of Don Gonzalo Ruiz Toledo, Lord of Orgaz. At this legendary event which had taken place two and a half ...
Nacido en Sevilla hace cuatro siglos, en 1599, se instala en Madrid, en 1623, con motivo de ingresar en la corte de Felipe IV como pintor al servicio del rey, permaneciendo en la capital de la monarquia, salvo dos viajes a Italia, hasta su muerte el 3 de agosto de 1660, a los 61 anos. Considerado como el mejor pintor espanol de todos los tiempos y ...
Throughout the pages of "The Moustache of La Gioconda", Arroyo spells out a reflection on the copy, the reinterpretation, the intervention, the appropriation and the other adjacent artistic strategies, which he agglutinates with the appellative 'pastiche' and, as he points out, which counted when he started his career with a new context that ...
En esta obra, Francisco Calvo Serraller analiza cuales han sido los principales cambios y movimientos del arte contemporaneo desde su nacimiento, en el siglo XVIII, hasta las ultimas tendencias. Esta edicion, profusamente ilustrada, aportara a los conocedores una sintesis clara de pintura, escultura, fotografia y cine, que permitira ordenar ...
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