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The best available introduction to Raphaels work, sumptuously re-created to appeal to a new generation of book collectors and art lovers.A luxurious publication of the works of Raphaello Sanzio, one of the greatest painters of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphaels extraordinary productivity, despite a brief career that ended with his death at the age of 37, resulted in a large body of work that includes such masterpieces as The School of Athens from the Vatican Raphael Rooms, portraits, drawings, tapestry cartoons and religious paintings.This sumptuously produced volume features an updated, full-colour selection of the artists works made by Ludwig Goldscheider, co-founder of Phaidon Press, for the original 1941 edition. An updated essay by William E Suida is accompanied by a new introduction from Renaissance specialist Bette Talvacchia, putting Raphael and his school into a contemporary context.Elegant design, fine papers and tipped-on image plates make this a true collectors edition.

This exhibition is organised in conjunction with the restoration of the great Crucifixion in El Escorial, which is currently being undertaken at the Prado as part of a collaborative institutional agreement between the Museum and Patrimonio Nacional. The catalogue, by Lorne Campbell, curator of the National Gallery in London and curator of the exhibition, opens with two of his essays, the first one around the life and work of Van der Weyden and the second one about the Flemish painter and his relationship with Spain. They are followed by a text by Carmen Garcia-Frias Checa, curator at Patrimonio Nacional, about the recovery and restoration process of The Crucifixion. The works of the exhibition are reproduced along with some infrared reflectography details of the pictures. The catalogue includes Bibliography and more than one hundred images of works by the great Flemish artist.

The best available introduction to van Gogh''s work, sumptuously re-created to appeal to a new generation of book collectors and art lovers.A splendid presentation of the work of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, much loved for the rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold colour of his paintings.This richly sumptuous edition features van Goghs most celebrated works from Starry Night to Sunflowers, from the landscapes and people of Arles to self-portraits, interiors and still lifes as selected by Ludwig Goldscheider, co-founder of Phaidon Press, for the original 1936 edition.The classic essay on van Goghs life and work by Wilhelm Uhde is supplemented by a completely new introduction written by Louis van Tilborgh, and the tipped-on plates, luxurious papers and elegant design make this a true collectors edition.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) es sin duda uno de los mayores genios que jamás hayan existido. Pintor, dibujante, inventor, teórico y maestro, contituye el prototipo del hombre del Renacimiento, con una contribucion a las bellas artes, la literatura, la ciencia y la tecnologia verdaderamente admirable.Esta recopilacion presenta una seleccion de los estudios mas fascinantes de Leonardo da Vinci. El volumen pretende desvelar las ideas del genial artistra, ilustrandolas mediante mas de un millar de bosquejos originales y delicados dibujos a mano alzada. La obra se divide en tres partes: "Belleza, razon y arte"; "Observaciones y orden", y "Cuestiones practicas", precedidas de su correspondiente introduccion. La minuciosa disposicion del material grafico tiene por objeto realzar y hacer mas comprensibles los textos originales. Aqui encontrara apuntes del punño y letra de Leonardo y singulares garabatos descifrados y traducidos, todo lo cual le orientara y le permitira orientara y le permitira profundizar en la obra y el genio de su creador.

This monumental monograph is devoted to one of the major painters of the Golden Age of Holland. Frans Hals was born in 1582 or 1583; he lived and worked at Haarlem, often in great poverty, and died there in 1666. His surviving paintings show him to have been one of the greatest portraitists of all time. Most of Halss sitters were men and women of the prosperous middle class. He also painted large group portraits of civic guard companies and governors of charitable institutions, as well as pictures of fisherfolk, merry drinkers, children and musicians. The almost magical spontaneity and boldness of Halss brushwork endows his paintings with a brilliance and immediacy that have assured him a unique place in European art.In this volume the author discusses Halss work, his development and the significance of his achievement, and relates the little that is known about his life, and the reactions of his contemporaries to his art. In presenting the historical background the author ranges widely and includes such diverse topics as social customs, the organization of Dutch militia companies, the activities of Halss patrons, contemporary fashion, and the taste for allegories and symbolic meaning in the art and literature of the time. Although the author''s major emphasis is on Halss pictorial accomplishment, it may be said that he has also succeeded in reconstructing from the artist''s work the everyday life of an epoch a rare achievement in art-historical literature. This monograph of more than 400 images also contains comparative illustrations: some details from Halss pictures, but mainly paintings, drawings and engravings by his predecessors and contemporaries, as well as acritical account of the artists paintings, of copies, and of lost works, many of which are known from engravings made during his lifetime. The impact of his work on some of his successors is also noted. With the publication of this comprehensive book, a broad rediscovery of Frans Halss supreme mastery can be made.

Velázquez debe a Italia mucho más de lo que manifiestan sus biógrafos y exegetas; y no sólo a Italia, sino a los Países Bajos; y no sólo a éstos, sino a sus profesores sevillanos Herrera y Pacheco, y, al casi español, Greco. Si se alza sobre los pintores compañeros fue por su cultura pictorica.

La luz es el principio esencial de la visión de Fra Angelico. En su pintura, hasta las sombras son luminosas, hasta los más profundos oscuros son color.

Catálogo publicado con motivo de la exposición “Goya en Madrid”, celebrada en el Museo Nacional del Prado entre el 28 de noviembre de 2014 y el 3 de mayo de 2015. Goya (1746–1828) hizo su primer via

Actas del seminario internacional celebrado en la Institución «Fernando el Católico» los días 27, 28 y 29 de octubre de 2011

Esta obra, destinada al público interesado en el conocimiento del Arte Hispanoamericano y a las relaciones entre la pintura virreinal y el Arte español y europeo, versa sobre la vida y la obra del más importante pintor del barroco quiteño, Miguel de Santiago (ca. 1633-1706). En el se analizan su historia personal y profesional, sus relaciones sociales con clientes y otros artistas, sus circunstancias familiares y economicas y las leyendas en torno a la figura del pintor a partir del estudio de una amplia documentacion inedita procedente de diversos archivos ecuatorianos. Asimismo se analizan su estilo y obra pictorica, clasificandola por generos e incluyendo las grandes series. Labor importante del libro es la expurgacion del catalogo de pinturas atribuidas al artista quiteño de numerosas obras que nada tienen que ver con su intervencion ni con su estilo. Finalmente, se estudian los colaboradores del obrador de Miguel de Santiago, desde los primeros años hasta el final de su actividad, analizandose tanto las obras firmadas como las atribuidas con o sin fundamento.

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El Greco representa el caso más extraordinario de fusión de culturas artísticas que se haya producido en la historia del arte. Se forma en Creta, ciudad en la que nació, más tarde en Italia y, para terminar, en la corte de Felipe II, en Toledo. Aislado de las corrientes principales del arte de su tiempo, puso en pie una de las obras mas intensa y espiritual de la cultura europea.