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Diego Velázquez (Séville, 1599 – Madrid, 1660) Diego Velázquez était un artiste anticonformiste de l'ère baroque. A l'âge de vingt-quatre ans, Velázquez fit son premier voyage à Madrid avec son professeur, Francisco Pacheco, rencontré à Séville. Rapidement, il se qualifia comme maître peintre. Le roi Philippe IV remarqua son génie et le nomma peintre de cour en 1627. Peu après, l'artiste se lia d'amitié avec Rubens à Madrid. Il développa une approche plus réaliste de l'art religieux, où les personnages sont représentés de façon naturaliste et non pas idéalisée. Son...

The self-appointed “leader” of the artists’ group Die Brücke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first works show the influence of Impressionism, Post-impressionism and Jugendstil, but by about 1909, Kirchner was painting in a distinctive, expressive manner with bold, loose brushwork, vibrant and non-naturalistic colours and heightened gestures. He worked in the studio from sketches made very rapidly from life, often from moving figures, from scenes of life out in the city or from the Die...

This collection of eighteen papers delivered at the twelfth biennial British Judeo-Spanish Studies conference, held in London in 2001, offers a wide selection of world-wide current research into the language, literature, and history of the Sephardi Jews. With contributions by Rachel Amado Bortnick, Tracy K. Harris, Jill Kushner Bishop, Judith R. Cohen, Alexia Duchowny, Dora Mancheva, Aitor Garcia Moreno, Elaine R. Miller, Aldina Quintana, Samuel G. Armistead, Julia R. Lieberman, Ronnie Perelis, Angel Berenguer Amador, Messod Salama, Rena Molho, Rivka Havassy, Maria Esformes and Matilde...

RESUMEN: El presente ensayo se inscribe en la cultura visual que en este momento histórico convive con la cultura escrita en el proceso informacióncomunicación-conocimiento. Si bien, hasta el siglo XX, la cultura escrita dominaba el ámbito de la construcción del conocimiento, con la hiper-sofistificación de las tecnologías de la información, poco a poco las habilidades informacionales han girado hacia la cultura visual, reconociendo a la representación de la información en el pensamiento del individuo como imagen, y, por lo tanto, con otras trascendencias diferentes a la lectura...

A close-up look at the life and work of the legendary painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn is set against the backdrop of the artistic and intellectual developments of seventeenth-century Europe and complemented by lush, full-color reproductions of some of the artist's most famous works. (Fine Arts)

Reprint of survey of 19th century art history in Costa Rica. The book studies how art, economy, politics and society interrelated during the formative process of the nation and the ideals that promoted local art appreciation.