Teoría general de la mediación interlingüe

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty and indecency. This book is devoted to representations of the nude by great artists from antiquity and the Italian Renaissance to French Impressionism and contemporary art; from Botticelli and Michelangelo to Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Botero. This beautifully produced book provides a collection that will appeal to all art lovers.

Now available again, this lively and accessible introduction to one of the world's most beloved artists is filled with color illustrations, fascinating biographical information, and insight into Picasso's artistic development. What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist's brilliant career and his influence on 20th-century art. Color reproductions of Picasso's masterpieces are...

Poco antes de su muerte, Claude Monet escribió: "Todavía lamento el haber sido la causa del nombre que se le dio a este grupo, ya que la mayoría de los artistas no eran impresionistas en absoluto". Comenzando con esta paradoja, la de un conjunto de artistas que se consideraban a sí mismos como un grupo coherente al mismo tiempo que declaraban que su objetivo final era reafirmar la individualidad artística, la autora, Nathalia Brodskaya, explora las contradicciones del arte de finales del siglo XIX. ¿Acaso no fue Manet quien evocó la fórmula definitiva: "pinto lo que veo y no lo que...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.