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Henri Matisse (1869-1954), a cofounder of Fauvism, understood the expressive power of pure colors and simple forms. As seen here, his color harmonies can be analogous to musical compositions, complex and expressive.

El Mediterráneo es una vez más escenario de la historias que protagonizan los personajes que ocupan este número: el geógrafo al-Idrisi y el rey normando Roger I, el escritor y político Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, e Ibn Firnas, que intentó emular al mitológico Ícaro en la Córdoba del siglo IX. Nuevo número de la Revista digital de la Fundación El legado andalusí.

The palindromic title of Brazilian artist Carla Zaccagnini's no, it is opposition. hints at its conceptual structure, which she describes as forking paths and crossroads. The book documents an exhibition which the viewer enters twice, encountering the same work again, but differently. The exhibition catalogue reflects the palindromic nature of the exhibition, mirroring itself and the exhibition in both structure and form.

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...