Three millennia of Spain's masterworks and major artistic personalities is illustrated in new colour photography for this survey. Fourteen original essays, each by a prominent specialist, cover the the following topics: prehistory and first contacts with Mediterranean antiquity; Roman art and architecture in Spain; from antiquity to the Middle Ages; Christianization and the Visigothic world; pre-Romanesque and Romanesque art; Gothic Spain; the presence of Islam and Arab art; the art of the Renaissance; the baroque; the art of colonial America; Francisco Goya; the 19th century; Spanish art from 1900 to 1939; Pablo Picasso and contemporary art; and architecture and design. Each chapter includes illustrated mini essays highlighting subjects of special interest: for example, recent discoveries of prehistoric art, a stunning Apocalypse made in the year 1078 and the 20th-century Catalan master architect Antoni Gaudi.

Art and Architecture of Spain

Arts & Photography

Altet, Xavier Barral I

Arce, Javier

History & Criticism

Bulfinch

The Bayeux Tapestry is impressive in its initial richness and, almost a thousand years after it was made, miraculously preserved. Entirely needle-embroidered in colored woolen threads, it recounts the conquest of the Kingdom of England by Duke William of Normandy. The universal significance of this secular masterpiece from the eleventh century has earned it a place on UNESCO's "Memory of the World" register. This beautiful book unfolds the whole work with accompanying detailed commentaries. It provides an update on current research, bringing together two erudite points of view from both sides of the Channel.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Bates, David

Citadelles & Mazemod

The Romanesque Cathedrales, Monasteries and Cities 
Originated by art theorists in the Nineteenth Century, the term "Romanesque" refers to a school of religious architecture and design from the early medieval period. As with all terms that attempt to summarise an epoch, "Romanesque" artificially constructs the notion of one unified style, but as this book makes clear, the Romanesque tendency consisted of many different, eclectic characteristics. The investigation back through time leads us across the ancient pilgrim routes of the Pyrenees, and then into a vast range of devotional structures - churches, tombs, monuments, cathedrals and basilicas. Each one carries its own regional imprint and spiritual iconography. Containing rigorously detailed and comprehensive insights into all aspects of Romanesque symbolism and ritual, this book includes analysis of liturgical equipment, and explores the significance of many features of the buildings. 
The Author: Xavier Barral i Altet is the well-known Professor of Art History in the Middle Ages at Rennes University. He wrote chapters on architecture and monumental sculpture in the multi-volume work "Romanesque Art" (Munich 1983-1984), and has written numerous publications and articles on the Middle Ages in specialist journals.

The Romanesque: Towns, Cathedrals and Monasteries

Taschen America, LLC

Sculpture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: From the Eighth Century Bc to the Fifteenth Century

DUBY, Georges

Bruneau, Philippe

TORELLI, MARIO

Principi E Corti Nel Rinascimento Meridionale: I Caetani E Le Altre Signorie Nel Regno Di Napoli (I Libri Di Viella) (Italian Edition)

History

Acconci, Alessandra

Aprea, Fabio

Cappelli, Guido

D'Attanasio, Marco

Europe

Viella - Liberia Editrice

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