Por la autora de Los amantes de Praga y Las horas de terciopeloVerano de 1890. Van Gogh llega a Auvers-sur-Oise, un bucólico pueblo francés que atrae a los pintores de París y otras ciudades por sus maravillosos colores y paisajes. Ahí ha crecido Marguerite Gachet, una chica de veinte años que, desde la muerte de su madre, se ha dedicado a atender a su padre y a su hermano. Es con ellos donde el pintor pasará su último verano, bajo el cuidado del doctor Gachet, médico homeópata, pintor aficionado y coleccionista. En estos últimos días de su vida, Van Gogh …

Una mujer indomable, un espíritu rebelde... una leyenda. Una de esas novelas que uno, simplemente, no puede perderse.Esta novela cuenta la historia de una mujer indomable, un espíritu rebelde. Destinada a crecer como la rica heredera de un magnate de la industria textil, desde pequeña supo que era diferente, que su capacidad de ver lo que otros no veían, de conectar con los animales, la convertía en especial.Desafió las convenciones sociales, a sus padres y maestros, y rompió cualquier atadura religiosa o ideológica para conquistar su derecho a ser una mujer libre, personal y artísticamente. Leonora Carrington es hoy una leyenda, la …

El proyecto artístico más ambicioso de Sara Rubayo, la historiadora del arte que ha revolucionado los museos en España, y Ana Gállego: una recopilación exhaustiva de todas las mujeres pintoras desde la Antigüedad hasta el siglo XVII.Hablemos de los artistas desde el siglo VI a. C hasta el XVII: son muchos siglos de historia, seguro que recuerdas algún nombre. Pero ¿quién te vienen a la mente? ¿Cuántos hombres? ¿Cuántas mujeres?PintorAs vol. 1 surge de la necesidad de encontrar a las mujeres de la historia del arte para poder pintar una imagen completa del desarrollo artístico a lo largo de los años. …

El proyecto artístico más ambicioso de Sara Rubayo, la historiadora del arte que ha revolucionado los museos en España, y Ana Gállego: una recopilación exhaustiva de todas las mujeres pintoras del siglo XVIII.Cuando un visitante entra en el Museo del Prado, espera ver Las Meninas de Diego Velázquez, no los bodegones de Clara Peeters, pese a pertenecer al mismo estilo artístico, y tener un incalculable valor histórico.PintorAs vol. 2 pretende dar respuesta al vacío de conocimiento que tiene la historia del arte: las mujeres artistas. No es que no las conozcamos porque no existieran, sino porque fueron despreciadas artísticamente y …

Art Nouveau gives a name to the decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a “renaissance” in the decorative arts. The primary objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of natural subjects. In order to achieve this, artists such as Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Antoni Gaudí, Jan Toorop, and William Morris favoured innovation in technique and novelty of forms. After …

Ever wondered why your ceiling is shaped like the arches in a gothic cathedral? Or why your offi ce building looks so different from its neighboring counterparts? The ABC of Style invites you to explore the many different architectural and decorative interior styles from their ancient origins to the 1940s. Take a journey through history to see how the French aristocracy styled their palaces and castles to the simple designs of the Dominican monastic churches during the middle ages. Often, political changes implicate a stylistic transformation. Thus, the different European styles were frequently named after a sovereign or a historical …

Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his epoch, relying on the new chromatic studies of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Georges Seurat transcribed the chemist’s theory of colours into tiny points that created an entire image. With his heavy strokes, Van Gogh illustrated the midday sun, whilst Cézanne renounced perspective. Rich in its variety and in the singularity of its artists, Post-Impressionism was a passage taken by all the well-known figures of 20th century …

In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle (such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt) favoured realism and biblical themes over the academicism of the time. This work, with its captivating text and rich illustrations, describes with enthusiasm this singular movement which notably inspired Art Nouveau and Symbolism.

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual, the sacred and the profane, the period provided a frame of reference which influenced European art over the next four centuries. …

For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 CE until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that is only beginning to be rediscovered. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern, and Christian cultures, Byzantine artists developed an architectural and pictorial tradition, marked by symbolism, whose influence extended far beyond the borders of the Empire. Today, Italy, North Africa, and the Near East preserve the vestiges of this sophisticated artistic tradition, with all of its mystical and luminous beauty. The magnificence of the palaces, churches, paintings, enamels, ceramics, and mosaics from …

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. In the middle of the “soulless” Industrial Era, when objects were standardised, the Arts & Crafts movement proposed a return to the aesthetic at the core of production. The work of artisans and …

Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the spontaneity of the aristocracy of the time. In many aspects, this art was linked to its predecessor, Baroque, and it is thus also referred to as late Baroque style. While artists such as Tiepolo, Boucher and Reynolds carried the style to its apogee, the movement was often condemned for its superficiality. In …