Johnny Klein es una víctima del rock, una estrella del pop de los ochenta venida a menos. Lo ha perdido todo: su familia, su dinero y su fama. Cuando un viejo conocido de la industria musical se ofrece a echarle un cable, Johnny acepta sin pens&aac...
En " Mi vida con Leonardo " , Martin Kemp, uno de los mayores expertos mundiales en Leonardo da Vinci, nos explica mediante un estilo personal y muy entretenido, entrelazado con la más pertinente reflexión académica, su relació...
Un libro imprescindible para conocer la obra de Leonardo da Vinci, coincidiendo con el 500 aniversario de su fallecimiento. Una edición de gran formato, bilingüe (españos / inglés) y con 160 imágenes que nos acercan a la...
Considerado como el estudio clásico sobre el arte, la ciencia y el pensamiento de Leonardo, esta obra magistral da cuenta, con una profundidad sin igual, del desarrollo intelectual y artístico de este genio del Renacimiento. A lo largo de...
New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table, counting down to the new decade with each televised chime of Big Ben. We have no idea what is about to hit us, no idea of the seismic waves of change approaching....
The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a...
Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal--not the silly secrets that the "Leonardo loonies" continue to advance, but previously...
Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it speaks to us directly, but it's also an historical document, part of a living world. Renowned art historian...
Like a kaleidoscope, Kemp uses these stories to refract, reconfigure, and echo the essential truth that the way we think about animals inevitably inflects how we think about people, and vice versa. Loaded with vivid illustrations and drawing on sources...
Martin Kemp, el más reconocido especialista en Leonardo a nivel mundial, desbroza en esta obra el denso manto de leyendas que existen en torno al más celebrado genio de todos los tiempos y pone en tela de juicio los mitos e interpretaciones...
This work, one of the most lucidly written art history books in recent memory, addresses a topic of inherent complexity and great recent interest. Kemp (Univ. of St. Andrews), who has written on Leonardo, discusses perspective and optic theories as they...