 Ribera
Text by Javier Portús. Painter and printmaker José Ribera (1591-1652, also known as Jusepe de Ribera) was among the earliest and best-loved exponents of Caravaggio's "Tenebrism," in which stark drama is drawn from extreme contrasts of light and shadow. >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434312708
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 104 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Not available
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|  El Greco
Text by Santiago Alcolea. El Greco (born Domenicos Theotocopoulos, 1541-1614) was born on the Greek island of Crete, then a Venetian colony, and went as a youth to Venice, where he began by painting icons in the Byzantine style >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434309661
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 108 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Goya
Text by José Gudiol. Goya--the name alone evokes countless masterpieces, both painted and printed: the raw and brutal “Third of May 1808,” the nightmarish Caprichos etchings (with the famous motto, “The sleep of reason produces monsters”), the compellingly erotic >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434311749
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Hardback, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 122 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Not available
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 Velázquez
Text by Santiago Alcolea. Like his Dutch contemporary Vermeer, Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) had little reputation outside of his native land until the nineteenth century, when the Spanish royal painting collections became state property and were installed in the Prado >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434311367
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Zurbarán
Text by Santiago Alcolea i Gil. Starker than Velázquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán (1598-1664) is easily among the finest of seventeenth-century Spanish painters. Apprenticed in Seville, he quickly gravitated toward the use of chiaroscuro, possibly having seen >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434311725
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Hardback, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 114 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Not available
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