Libros

Les mémoires d'Alexis, 3e baron de Redé, appartenant au plus haut cercle de la société mondaine européenne et américaine, collectionneur d'art et chantre de l'élégance et du goût. Arrivé à Paris en 1946, il s'installe dans le prestigieux hôtel Lambert, sur l'Île-Saint-Louis, dont il occupe l'étage (...)

The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic compositions and pronounced contrasts between light and dark, the baroque was later exported by countless artists to their own countries, where the new (...)

Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher this pioneering study uncovers an (...)

How did Jesuits use the contemporary visual language of baroque to draw the public into their vision of humanity, religion and society? In this book, several authors attempt to answer this complex question.The setting is Antwerp in the 17th century. At that time, the city served as the headquarters (...)