When asked who he considered an importance, Picasso only mentioned Goya (1746-1828). But, his extremely influence has arrived to a lot of modern and contemporary painters, such as Manet, the Expressionist movement on early twentieth-century and, most recently, Francis Bacon, and Sigmar Polke. As painter of the Spanish Court, he created series of tapestry cartoons, wallpaintings, and individuals and group portraits, but, after his serious illnes in late 1792, he starts an important body of uncommissioned works that introduces new elements which greatly enhance their expressive potential. This book, wrote by José Gudiol, one of the most renowed specialist in Spanish paintings, is focuses on goya s, profoundly disturbing imagery, and demonstrates that his modernity derives from his lifelong investigation of what lies behind the world of appearances and convention.

 

Goya

José Gudiol

128pp./ 21.5x28cm./ 133il./ Hardcover with jacket

ISBN:
9788434311732
9788434311749
Castellano
English

24.50€
 

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With Velázquez and El Greco, Zurbarán (1598-1664) is undoubtedly one of the best known seventeenth-century Spanish monastic ascetism, has come to the forefront once again in the XX century, thanks party to cubism, which contributed to rediscovery of the great plastic qualities of his work. Indeed, if the simplicity of his artistic preparation reflects a melancholy and somewhat unrefined temperament, and his painting contains a rustic accent, in his work there is a preponderance of plastic values that respond to a concern with giving a concrete form to the construction os the spirit. Profesor Santiago Alcolea provides us with an overview of the whole Zurbaran s artistic career structured into four periods marked by important events that led to major changes in his style.

 

Zurbarán

Santiago Alcolea i Gil

128pp./ 21.5x28cm./ 124il./ Hardcover with jacket

ISBN:
9788434311718
9788434311725
Castellano
English

24.50€
 

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Renowned as the largest art gallery in the world, the Prado houses sculptures, drawings, coins, and other works of art—but it is its incomparable collection of paintings which had drawn fame worldwide. Included in its store of more than 8,600 paintings are works by members of the Italian, Flemish, Spanish, French, Dutch, and German schools. Albrecht Dürer, Anton van Dyck, Correggio,El Greco, Goya, Hieronymous Bosch, José de Ribera, Lucas Cranach, Nicolas Poussin, Pieter Brueghel, Rafael, Rembrandt, Rogier van der Veyden, Rubens, Sandro Botticelli,Tiepolo,Tintoretto,Tiziano,Velázquez,and nearly every other master painter from the 12th to the 20th century is represented in the Prado’s magnificient collection.The history of the museum began during the reign of Charles III, but it did not really concretize as an institution until the reign of Fernando VII, under whom the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture was founded in 1819.With the disapearance of the Spanish monarchy, the museum became national property and was renamed the Prado Museum. Only a tenth of the Prado’s immense collection of works are normally on show.Architect Rafael Moneo (Pritzker Prize in 1996) has designed a plan to join the existing neo- classical building with two nearby historical buildings, the cloister of the San Jerónimo church and a 17th-century palace, by buried passageways. 

 

The Prado Museum

Santiago Alcolea Blanch

408pp./ 26x31cm./ 319il./ Clothbound

ISBN:
9788434311756
9788434311763
Castellano
English

65.00€
 

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