Poder y heterodoxia en el mundo greco-romano es un volumen colectivo que reúne trabajos de prestigiosos especialistas nacionales e internacionales que, desde diferentes ámbitos, han querido reconocer y mostrar su adhesión a una práctica de análisis histórico en la que pasado y presente dejan de convertirse en compartimentos estancos, gestionados por «profesionales» de la Historia, para convertir a esta en un oficio basado en el diálogo entre mundos distantes y distintos que aporten reflexión y claridad a nuestro presente.

Frente a planteamientos ideológicos dominantes que interpretan los hechos históricos con un carácter unidireccional e interesado, en la medida en que la …

Born in Krasnoiarsk in 1848, Surikov died in Moscow in 1916. He is one of the great masters of history painting, and he occupies a special place in Russian culture. Like Delacroix, he believed that history was not a pretext for nice painting but an inexorable drama with neither culprits nor innocents but rather people driven by invisible forces. He was very knowledgeable about Russian history, and his paintings deal with crucial moments. He sought in historical events the answers to pressing problems of his time. Here is a book about a painter little-known in the West, analysed with understanding …

Among the “young peredvizhniki” who joined the World of Art group, the most brilliant portraitist was Valentin Serov. Like many of his contemporaries, he delighted in painting out of doors, and some of his most appealing portraits – such as Girl with Peaches, Girl in Sunlight and In Summer - owe their naturalness to their setting or to the interplay of sunlight and shadows. Indeed, Serov regarded them as “studies” rather than portraits, giving them descriptive titles that omitted the sitter's name. The subject of Girl with Peaches – painted when Serov was only twenty-two – was in fact Mamontov's …

"Daily fast-pace does not always allow us to stop and think about the direction of the educational task. However, the goal cannot be to return to "normalcy" because many children did not find it useful. We have to reimagine education as some - thing better than what it used to be. This book is an invitation to do so". Arne Duncan, former U.S. secretary of Education in the Obama administration "31 candid interviews with expert sources from all over the world. Decades of experience: Porres conducts a global cho - rus of voices that places children back at the center …

Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a painter and a great art theorist, but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism, a style seeking pure abstraction based on geometrical forms. “Suprematism,” he wrote, “has led me to discover something that had not been understood until then… There is in human consciousness an imperious desire of space and the will to escape from Earth.” This new publication presents the brilliant and original works of Malevich, who had no professional background as a painter before the age of twenty-seven and who learned to draw out of sheer curiosity and his will to …

This is a major pictorial work about the Romanov dynasty, the supreme rulers of Russia for over 300 years, with special emphasis on the life of Nicholas II, the last Tsar. Moreover, it is an unsurpassed photographic record of the lives of the last reigning members of the Russian Royal family. The great majority of the photographs used in this book have never been published before, and have rarely been seen even by researchers from the West, having remained hidden in archives for 70 years, since the Russian revolution. The many contemporary photographs depict Russian royalty in ceremonial dress and …

September 4, 476 A. D. marked the end of the Western Roman Empire. After several centuries of prosperity, Europe sank into chaos. With Charlemagne, a new dynamic begins that of a civilising reconstruction. The Romanesque period is part of the rediscovery of this Roman Empire, lost in memories, but living on in the architectural testimonies of the cities and the countryside. In art history, Romanesque art refers to the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era was characterised by a great diversity of regional schools, each practising their own unique style. …

Luisa Aurora Viviana Rodal, after graduating in Letters and Philosophy (UBA), realized during ten years different academic labors at various universities. During the years 1982 and 1983 she pursued postgraduate studies and researches  at the Department of Religion, Syracuse University,  New York, USA. Independently, she continued her studies in the fields of Religion and Ethics. This essay, meditated during a long period of time, includes themes that concern her: iconoclasm as the limit of the image and symbol and  time as possibility of freedom and creation. She dedicates herself also to Art, especially to play violin.

El sábado 16 de diciembre de 1944 Hitler inició su “última jugada” en los bosques nevados de las Ardenas. Su intención era realizar un ataque por sorpresa que, avanzando hacia Amberes, dividiese los ejércitos aliados e hiciese posible infligirles una severa derrota: un nuevo Dunquerque que cambiase el curso de una guerra que había llegado a una situación angustiosa, con los ejércitos soviéticos avanzando en suelo alemán. El ataque, en el que intervendrían dos ejércitos blindados, se complementaba con la actuación en la retaguardia de un comando de soldados alemanes, con uniformes y vehículos norteamericanos. Como hiciera en Stalingrado, Beevor …