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Anders Zorn
Recorrer el mundo, recordar la tierra Anders Zorn (1860–1920) was the most prominent Swedish painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Coming from a humble rural background, he achieved international fame as a portraitist…
Dibujos de Juan Conchillos Falcó (1641-1711). Catálogo razonado Juan Conchillos Falcó (1641–1711) was one of the most prominent painters of the Valencian Baroque school. As he has not enjoyed widespread historiographical recognition, he is currently fairly unknown to…
Metapolítica Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz (1606–1682) embodies the highest Spanish sense of leadership in the seventeenth century: he competed with Galileo in astronomy and pointed out to Descartes his errors in metaphysics;…
Contra la guerra
Los Desastres de Goya In 1810, during the Peninsular War (1808–14), Francisco de Goya began working on the 82 prints that make up the Disasters of War, in which he artistically portrayed the experience…
British Travellers in Seville & their Drawings, 1715–1854 This book offers a wide-ranging and accurate survey of British travellers in Seville from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Well-known characters such as the poet Lord Byron, the artist…
Luis de Vargas, pincel y mano peregrina Luis de Vargas, a painter seldom studied despite his importance to sixteenth-century Spanish art, returned to Seville in 1550 after two long decades in Italy and burst onto the local…
Pedro de Villafranca: Printmaker at the Court of Philip IV This is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the Spanish artist Pedro de Villafranca y Malagón (c. 1615–1684). His unrivalled skill as an engraver was recognised…
Arquitectura y Monarquía en Madrid, 1620-1700 With its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place from which momentous decisions were made whose implications…
Ribera, ténèbres et lumière The Petit Palais is presenting the first French retrospective ever devoted to Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), the terrible heir to Caravaggio, whom his contemporaries considered ‘darker and more ferocious’ than…