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Il volume, catalogo della mostra di Bruxelles, ripercorre il mito di Venere attraverso circa duecento splendide illustra-zioni a colori e a un apparato critico ricco di contributi di specialisti italiani e stranieri. In particolare, la prima parte Il quadro, la storia interna, l'i-conografia presenta la Venere d'Urbino di Tiziano e i modelli ad essa legati: la Venere di Dresda del Giorgione e tre ritratti di Tiziano che anticiparono i temi della Venere. La seconda parte La fortuna iconografica di Venere ripercorre la storia del modello della Venere d'Urbino, da epoca etrusca, greca e romana, fino all'Ottocento e al Novecento, con opere di Goya, Manet, Modigliani e altri. Un'ultima parte é infine dedicata alle influenze che l'opera ebbe e attualmente ha su moda, arredamento e tessuti.

One of Britain s most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within the Bloomsbury Group and known for her unconventional lifestyle but her work as a painter designer and decorator has often been overlooked and relegated within the bombastic male dominated field of British modernism With new research including previously unpublished letters Wendy Hitchmough explores the ways in which Bell 1879 1961 forged new pathways as a modernist woman Writing openly about depression and mental health at a time when the subject was stigmatised as well as challenging taboos surrounding women s bodies Bell exploited the patriarchal society that oppressed her She responded to the nudes and pastoral scenes of Cezanne Gauguin Picasso and Matisse with themes of miscarriage and motherhood She exhibited with her partner Duncan Grant and comparisons between their parallel careers highlight the gender disparities that shaped her life and work Vanessa Bell The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical celebrates the artist s trailblazing approach to art as well as life her rejection of conventions and the challenge she posed to the structures of

Una guía, maravillosamente ilustrada, sobre la Historia del Arte del mundo occidental, desde el siglo XII hasta nuestros días, a través de la colección permanente de la National Gallery of Art de Washington. Entre las piezas de arte seleccionadas se encuentran muchas de las obras maestras más conocidas del arte europeo. Con más de 300 fotografías a color, esta Historia del Arte, es una manual indispensable.