11,109円 In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial Chinaーthe Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art co...

5,470円 Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Jože Plecnik (1872-1957), the book reveals the fundamental pol...

12,269円 This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound together in communal production, sharing spiritual and aesthetic aims. Although it is widely acknowledged that this is an unique feature of the period, ther...

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1,500円 Diego Velázquez, uno de los representantes principales del barroco del siglo XVII, está considerado como uno de los mayores pintores de la historia del arte español. Este artista, que va subiendo en la jerarquía social gracias a su talento, moderniza el género pictórico del retrato al plasmar a s...

12,519円 This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the Neapolitan Baroque, through original and in-depth interpretations of pivotal masterpieces of Neapolitan art, literature, philosophy, theater. The book also presents the city of Naples as a cultural space in which the body functions as a ...

679円 La Trasparenza della luce è un libro che racchiude una varietà di scritti ispirati a correnti del pensiero filosofico, altruista, metafisico ed esistenzialista. Si organizza intorno a forme poetiche, saggi o tessiture profonde, basati su indirizzi della conoscenza esistenziale e correnti che anal...

1,500円 Keen to learn but short on time? Find out everything you need to know about the life and work of Francisco Goya in just 50 minutes with this straightforward and engaging guide! Francisco Goya is one of the most important figures of Spanish art history, alongside icons such as Diego Velásquez and ...

12,269円 In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire...

10,280円 The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable co...

453円 The late Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, uniquely combined art historian, philosopher, orientalist, linguist, and expositor in his person. His knowledge of the arts and handcrafts of the Orient was unexcelled and his numerous monographs on Oriental...

453円 This book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable is a monograph on the great Italian architect and structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979), which was first published in 1960. PIER LUIGI NERVI was born in Sandrio, Italy, on June 21, 1891. He completed his formal studies at t...