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This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from...

This is the history of Rivera's ill-fated mural at the Rockefeller Center in New York and the minute restoration of the sketches housed in the collections of the Museo Anahuacalli, complemented by a vast number of letters, photos and other documents, many of which are published here for the first time.

Estamos ante un riguroso ensayo; y un ensayo literario que nos regala —como dijo el filósofo— la "poetización del saber". Su prosa tiene la fuerza del columnista recio sin perder la inspiración del poeta, argumenta con osadía pero no pierde de vista nunca la vida como referente necesario, algo que no todo el pensamiento contemporáneo tiene en cuenta cuando se dejar arrastrar por la mera especulación intelectual.

The exhibition discovers a feature rarely known of famous muralist Diego Rivera's (b. Mexico 1886-1957) personality: as a collector of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art. The book analyses the inspirational force that these ancient objects represented in his artistic creations, particularly those related to ancient cosmovision; while in parallel revalues the importance of Rivera's contributions to collectionism: his collection, his safekeeping efforts, and how he presented to the public the pieces, highlighting their aesthetic and mystic importance and the role they had as symbols of the Mexican...