NOVEDADES

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply “Il Divino” (“the divine one”).This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible texts, we explore the artist’s extraordinary figuration and celebrated style of terribilità (momentous grandeur), which allowed human and biblical drama to exist in compelling scale and fervor.

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter’s work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming presence of digital images, he shows us the unsurpassed impact and intensity of painting. A definitive introduction to one of the greatest artists of our time spanning not only his entire career, but also 50 years of cultural, economic, and political events.

En 1938, una ballena aparece muerta en una remota isla galesa. Para la joven Manod es tanto una fatalidad como un símbolo de lo que hay más allá de esas duras costas y que se materializa con la llegada de dos etnógrafos ingleses, atraídos por el alma salvaje y arcaica del lugar, y que le hablan de libros, de ideas, de libertad. Pero a sus crecientes temores de que la comunidad pueda estar siendo peligrosamente malinterpretada, se suma la posibilidad sombría de una nueva guerra. Profunda, elegante y cautivadora, en La ballena varada se erige un universo entero en miniatura, el de una isla convertida en espejo del mundo exterior, con sus esperanzas y desilusiones, y una mujer enfrentada a cambios irreversibles. Una novela evocadora sobre la pérdida y el autodescubrimiento que resuena con la misma fuerza que el paisaje en el que transcurre.