Libros

El Impresionismo inaugura una manera de mirar y de pintar que establecerá las bases sobre las que se asentará el nuevo arte del siglo XX. Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet o Renoir, entre los nombres centrales del movimiento, y figuras de marcado estilo personal como Paul Gauguin o Vincent van Gogh (...)

Jean-Michel Basquiat's self-portraits are regarded as being among the most important of his radical creative works. In addition to some 50 specific portraits of himself, we can also see his series of likenesses of African-American men as concealed reproductions of the artist. Not least because (...)

Of all the threats faced by the Royal Navy during the first years of the twentieth century, the one which stood out was the risk to Britain's sea lines of communication posed by France's armoured cruisers. Fast, well-armed and well-protected, these ships could have evaded any attempted blockade of (...)

Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies and primarily designed for the defence of trade, (...)