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21) El Bosco
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Nacido a mediados del siglo, experimentó en toda su fuerza el drama del Renacimiento y de su guerra con la religión. Las tradiciones y valores medievales se estaban desintegrando para dar lugar al ingreso de la humanidad en un nuevo universo donde la fe pierde parte de su poder y mucho de su magia. Sus alegorías favoritas fueron el cielo, el infierno y la lujuria. El Bosco creía que cada quien tenía que elegir entre dos opciones: el cielo o el...
22) Remington
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It is impossible to reflect upon Frederic Remington's art without thinking of the merely human elements. Remington became interested in the American Indian, probably because he became interested in the active, exciting life of the American Great Plains. The Indian appealed to him not in any histrionic way, not as a figure stepped out from the pages of Hiawatha, but just as a human subject. Remington hit upon this truth when he travelled west. What...
23) Edward Hopper
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Edward Hopper exprime avec poésie la solitude de l'homme face à cet american way of life qui se développe dans les années 1920. S'inspirant du cinéma par les prises de vue ou les attitudes des personnages, ses peintures reflètent et dénoncent l'aliénation de la culture de masse. Avec ses toiles aux couleurs froides, peuplées de personnages anonymes, l'œuvre d'Hopper symbolise aussi le reflet de la Grande Dépression. A travers des reproductions...
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) est largement considéré comme l'un des artistes les plus importants de la Renaissance nordique.
Né à Nuremberg, en Allemagne, Dürer est devenu célèbre pour sa maîtrise de plusieurs techniques, notamment la peinture, la gravure et la gravure sur bois. Tout au long de sa vie, Dürer a produit un large éventail d'œuvres qui témoignent de ses compétences techniques et de sa vision novatrice. Son art intègre souvent...
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (6 de junio de 1599 – 6 de agosto de 1660), conocido como Diego Velázquez, fue un pintor del Siglo de Oro español que tuvo una influencia considerable en la corte del rey Felipe IV. Junto con Francisco de Goya y El Greco, es considerado uno de los artistas más importantes de la historia de España. Su estilo, aunque se mantuvo muy personal, se enmarca claramente en el movimiento barroco. Las dos visitas...
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Raphaël (1483-1520), le peintre italien et architecte de la Haute Renaissance, était un génie dans et en avance sur son temps. Ensemble avec Michel-Ange et Léonard de Vinci, il a formé la trinité classique de cette époque et a élaboré un riche style d'harmonie et géométrie. Comme l'un des grands maîtres de la Renaissance et artiste à l'Europe la royauté et la cour papale à Rome, ses travaux comprennent différents thèmes de théologie...
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Magnificent compilation of all 100 original plates from Michaud's classic History of the Crusades. Includes The War Cry of the Crusaders, The Massacre of Antioch, The Road to Jerusalem, The Baptism of Infidels, The Battle of Lepanto, and many more. Powerful, striking royalty-free illustrations. Captions.
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Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, as shown by the diversity of his artistic interests as well as his awareness of the social and political events of this time. He developed a number of painting techniques which were afterwards used by several generations of artists. His somewhat mannered style and spending palette are easily recognized in numerous portraits of monarchs, cardinals, courtiers and their ladies,...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan, Wright Sites has been revised and expanded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the architect's birth in June 1867. The fourth edition of our best-selling...
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Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer's own resonant themes-women and wilderness, travel and science-to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Schäffer imagined in more recent times. Public and...
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Hans Holbein the Younger, a Northern Renaissance master generally regarded as one of the greatest portraitists of art history, came from a family of prominent artists. His stunning portraits are renowned for their unprecedented naturalism and precise draughtsmanship. Holbein's most enduring achievement is his record of the court of King Henry VIII, which we continue to view through his eyes and unique mode of expression. The influence of his work...
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Sanaa's housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa Apartments, House in China and Eda Apartments). SANAA's architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances. It has many elements that are impossible to understand unless actually "experienced". In contrast with modern architecture,...
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En la primera parte de este libro se esboza una semblanza de la vida y obra de Walter Weberhofer (1923-2002), ubicándolo en los contextos históricos nacional e internacional. En las siguientes cuatro secciones se estudian algunos de sus trabajos arquitectónicos y urbanísticos más importantes, analizando los espacios, los volúmenes, las perspectivas y las estructuras, entre otros aspectos.
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La leyenda de Miguel Ángel (1475-1564) ha permanecido incólume durante quinientos años. Eruditos como Chateaubriand, Manzoni y Rilke vieron en él un maestro de la renovación del arte occidental. En efecto, dotado con un genio creativo casi sobrehumano, Miguel Ángel encarna al "hombre universal" del Renacimiento italiano, y la calidad y alcance de su obra son incomparables, ni siquiera en el caso de Leonardo da Vinci-obras como la Piedad, el...
35) Claude Monet
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For Claude Monet the designation 'impressionist' always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did not paint classical compositions with figures, and he did not become a...
36) Dürer
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Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment, being well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; Dürer is even more celebrated for his engravings on wood and copper than for his paintings. With both, the skill of his...
37) Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai est sans doute l'artiste japonais le plus connu en Occident, et ce, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle. Reflet de l'expression artistique d'une civilisation isolée, les œuvres de Hokusai, qui furent parmi les premières en provenance du Japon à émerger en Europe, influencèrent particulièrement les peintres impressionnistes et post-impressionnistes, tels que Vincent van Gogh. Considéré de son vivant comme un maître de l'estampe...
38) Hokusai
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Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilization, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. Considered during his life as a living Ukiyo-e master, Hokusai...
39) William Blake
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Figure majeure du mouvement romantique, le britannique William Blake (1757-1827) fut à la fois peintre, dessinateur, graveur et poète. L'artiste s'attachant à illustrer lui-même son Œuvre littéraire, les textes de Blake se développent suivant les lignes de ses gravures et dessins hallucinés, et deviennent, dès lors, de véritables enluminures. Inspiré des thèmes bibliques et prophétiques (Proverbes de l'Enfer, L'Évangile éternel, Les...
40) Francisco Goya
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuentetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828) Goya est peut-être le peintre le plus accessible entre tous. Son art, comme sa vie, est un livre ouvert. Il ne cachait rien de ses contemporains, et leur offrait son art avec la même franchise. L'entrée dans son monde n'est pas barricadée de difficultés techniques. Il prouva que si un homme a la capacité de vivre et de multiplier ses expériences, de se battre et de travailler,...
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