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Il Museo Lorenzo Ferri a Cave, a pochi chilometri da Roma, è dedicato ad un artista, immeritatamente poco conosciuto, ma certamente presente in modo significativo nel tessuto urbano di Roma e non solo. Basti per tutti ricordare Piazza Trilussa, nel cuore di Trastevere, dove per celebrare il poeta...

“The chief difficulty experienced in the compilation of these “ Memorials of Christie’s ” has been, not the lack of material, but the wealth of it. To compress into two volumes the essence of many thousands of catalogues has been a task of no little difficulty, and I do not pretend to claim...

Drawing on fifty centuries of human history, this encyclopedic collection of images is filled with demons, monsters, animal-gods, totemic figures, and other supernatural beasts from the darker realms of man's imagination. Works range from prehistoric rock paintings to the drawings of Max Ernst, from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame.

In these 19 insightful and frequently witty meditations, Stephen E. Weil examines the purposes and functions of the museum in the late 20th century, proposing museums make encounters with a variety of visitors more central to their operation.

Lightforms: Energy Flow Photography is a collection of Art Photography by Adrian Ravarour. In 1968, Ravarour conceived and created the Energy Flow System of Arts utilizing biopsychic energy as a perceptual, directional, and evolutionary agent to activate the spiritual being. Over the past four decades,...

In Aquellos años / Those Years the author gathers a diverse collection of images captured from 1987 on, when, unexpectedly, he began his foray into photography. Even in those years, we perceive an avid and curious eye, willing and able to capture a family of folkloric musicians rehearsing...

Catalogo della mostra aperta dal 12 al 25 novembre 2015 presso il Complesso del Vittoriano Dal punto di vista dello stile e dell’espressione Anghelopoulos e Pinchi non hanno molto in comune eppure vederli connessi in una mostra che li vede entrambi protagonisti rende plausibile e condivisibile l’ipotesi...

The aim of this book is to tempt and tease you, the peruser into wondering, which part of the island the photo was taken!

A photographic exploration of the portrayed models' dreams, fantasies, dislikes and turn offs. Each one of them brought her own concept and was the creator of her series, making their dreams a reality for a crystallized moment.

An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned...

Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011 detainment. In an astonishing new large-scale project,...

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from 12/13/2015 to 3/20/2016 This exhibition is an extraordinary opportunity to view

Blue, the world's favorite color, is elegantly showcased in more than 200 artworks from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Representing a diversity of movements, cultures, and media that spans the ages and the globe, the objects in Blue range from ancient Egyptian jewelry and traditional...

Si le texte évangélique de l’Apocalypse est une des thématiques les plus représentées en histoire de l’art, ce n’est pas tant pour faire allégeance au texte sacré que pour sa représentation : celle de l’humanité en tant que telle. Véritable mise à nu (selon l’étymologie grecque),...