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Constable An introduction to the work of John Constable.John Sunderland One of a series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art This volume on Constable contains an extensive essay, 48 full-page colour plates, and is accompanied by extensive notes and comparative illustrations Provides incomparable value Highly regarded for its insight and authority No artist has rivalled John Constable (1776-1837) in his powers to express the beauties of the British countryside, especially the scenery of his native East Anglia. He sought above all to make 'pure and unaffected representarions of the scenes', and to this end he made detailed studies of the minutest phenomena of nature. He wrote: 'My limited and abstracted art is to be found under every hedge, and in eveyr lane...'. But this feeling for such qualities had to be reconciled with the traditional - and what were for him the essential - demands of of painting pictures for public exhibition. In this book many of his most famous pictures are reproduced, showing how Constable adjusted the fresh, spontaneous handling of paint in his sketches to mroe formal, academic requirements. John Sunderland's enormously successful survey of the life and work of Constable was first published in 1971. Each full-page colour plate is accompanied by an explanatory text, and over fifty black-and-white illustrations offer comparisons with the paintings.

La parábola humana de Rembrandt marca las páginas más trágica del "siglo de oro" del arte holandés. Proyectado a la cúspide de la pintura europea y luego precipitado a una ruina imparable, Rembrandt ha dejado grandes obras memorables, cargadas de humanidad y de emocion. Sin alejarse nunca de Holanda, Rembrandt alcanza una dimension universal, que va mas alla de su tiempo y de las fronteras de su pequeña nacion: pintor del espiritu de la vida, llega al corazon de quien contempla sus obras y deja una marca indestructible. Encuadernacion: rustica.

Canaletto The definitive monograph on the renowned Old Master painter. J G Links The definitive monograph on Canaletto (1697-1768), one of the most renowned Old Master painters Canaletto is celebrated for his views of Venice, Rome and London, which display both his technical skill and his unrivalled ability to evoke the atmosphere of a scene Explores Canaletto's life and career, relating his art to that of his predecessors, rivals and followers Generously illustrated with paintings, sketches, etchings and manuscripts Canaletto (1697-1768) is one of the most popular of all Old Master painters. His views of Venice, Rome and London are adamantly celebrated and admired across the globe, but he was more than a mere recorder of scenery. In the words of one of his contemporaries, he had the power to paint so that 'the eye is deceived and truly believes it is the real thing it sees'. J G Links' magisterial study was first published in 1982 and immediately became the standard work on the subject, admired both for its comprehensive, meticulous scholarship and for its combination of lucidity and elegance. Fully revised, expanded and redesigned in 1994, with 160 beautifully reproduced colour illustrations, Canaletto is now reissued as a paperback, making this classic work accessible to a new and wider audience. This book embodies the essential introduction to Canaletto's life and work - covering his oeuvre as a whole in great detail and with intense artistic appreciation - while its sophistication and breadth of scope render it an equally rewarding corpus for any connoisseur.

Francis Bacon (1909-92) speaks openly to his close friend Michel Archimbaud, whose searching questions shed a new light on Bacons work. The discussion is wide-ranging, touching on painting, literature and music, with candid revelations about Bacons childhood, his relationship with his father, his friends and the influences which have shaped his art. It is punctuated with revealing and sometimes disparaging remarks about a whole host of artists, including among others Rubens, Blake, Monet, Cezanne, Picasso, Balthus, Giacometti, Shakespeare and Baudelaire. These interviews can be regarded as Bacons final vision as they took place in the artists studio in Paris between October 1991 and April 1992, shortly before he died.

555 años de Leonardo Da Vinci. Obra pictórica completa y obra gráfica.

Su fantacia tenia tal fuerza expresiva que us manos no podian desarrollar las formidables y monstruosas ideas que creaba su mente, lo que a menudo hacía que dejara inacabadas o destruyera sus obras, supe que poco antes de morir, habia quemado toda su serie de esbozos, bocetos y cartones, para que nadie supiera los esfuerzos que habia realizado ni las dificultades a las que habia sometido su inigualable talento, simplemente para que nunca se conociera de el mas que la suma perfeccion.

La trayectoria de Velázquez puede ser considerada como una constante investigación de la relación entre la pintura y la naturaleza, en la que la pincelada toma el papel principal. A medida que la desarrollo, logro un naturalismo fisico y psicologico sin precedentes con pinceladas progresivamente mas pronunciadas y mas elegantes, consiguiendo efectos milagrosos de ilusion con una tecnica condensada y asombrosa, basada mas en la deduccion que en la elaboracion del detalle. la sintesis de la vid y la obra de Velazquez que el profesor Santiago Alcolea i Gil realiza en este libro ofrece al lector una amplia panoramica de uno de los credores mas señalados de la pintura universal.

Esta breve monografía que ahora se presenta tiene principalmente un carácter general, si bien se han introducido aspectos específicos que pueden ser vías de acceso a futuras investigaciones. En términos generales se ha empleado el catalogo mas actualizado de Lopez Rey como punto de referencia, aunque tambien se han incluido obras que no son aceptadas por toda la critica pero cuyo debate y existencia el lector debe conocer. Durante las ultimas decadas las investigaciones y escritos sobre Velazquez se han multiplicado exponencialmente y su arte ha sido admirado y parafraseado por lo mas grandes maestros del siglo XX, entre ellos Picasso y Francis Bacon. El pintor y su obra siguen siendo tema de debate entre los especialistas empeñados en aprehender el sentido ultimo de sus imagenes que se nos muestran siempre abiertas en sus significados, dinamicas en su silencio secular. Admirados por la tecnica modernisima, el colorido elegante, el realismo trascendente, las composiciones meditadas, la espiritualidad tangible, se descubre que las obras de Velazquez -retratos, paisajes, bodegones, escenas sacras, de historia y mitologia son ademas fuentes inagotables de inspiracion en todas las artes.

El libro contiene un CD con una selección musical de la época del autor

Para Antonina Vallentin una biografía no es una sucesión de datos eruditos, ni es tampoco el brillo de un personaje deslumbrante; muy por el contrario ella presta a la precisión científico-histórica una emocion, un sentido de la vida, que hacen de la biografia escueta la descripcion viva de una epoca, y que convierten el libro riguroso en una narracion vibrante, en una obra de arte. Y esto es lo que sentimos al recorrer con El Greco las distintas tierras, al instalarnos en la Toledo imperial.