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Cv/VAR series 152 publishes an anthology of essays and reviews by
the eminent art historian and writer, Edward Lucie-Smith. The
articles cover a broad span, from the Italian Renaissance of Giotto
and Antonello da Messina, Leonardo and Michelangelo, progressing to
Rubens, Velazquez and Ingres, with essays on William Hogarth, John
Constable and John Everett Millais for British Art. With the
experience of his landmark publications on modern art, which remain
in print; the author sweeps the reader on a fabulous journey of
perception, disclosing the strands that bind the continuum of
classic and contemporary art.
The art market today is like a Monopoly game. There is an
underworld of art secrets unknown to the public and many art
experts around the world. This art collection was hidden away by
the famous artist Picasso and his wife Jacqueline Picasso to keep
them away from the hands of his illegitimate children, who today
are in charge of the authentication certificates for the artist
Picasso's artwork. This art collection is unique and has never been
seen by anyone in the art world. Now, in this book, I am giving you
the chance to see these unseen artworks, along with some amazing
oil paintings by some of the other top artists in the world. Most
of our Picasso paintings have been authenticated by Picasso himself
or his wife Jacqueline. Some authentication was done in the
artist's Barcelona museum, opened in Spain in 1963; others were
authenticated on 18 February 1980 and 20 April 1982 by Jacqueline,
with the help of Jon Miro and others. This is the story of one
painting that will change history and show the facts, and what is
known about Picasso's artwork, to the art world. This is a
one-of-a-kind art discovery that will be registered in history as
one of the biggest art discoveries made by one person. It will
prove that this artwork, along with more than a hundred oil
paintings and other artworks, was part of the private collection of
Picasso himself and his wife Jacqueline. Their discovery will
change history, revealing many unknown art secrets and
never-seen-before oil paintings and artworks of the 19th century by
Picasso and some of his favourite artists and best friends, like
Georges Braque, Joan Miro, Fernand Leger, Piet Mondrian, Georges
Rouault, Wifredo Lam, Henri Matisse, Ambroise Vollard, Claude
Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and
many more. This book will also reveal the secrets behind the Musee
d'Orsay labels, stamps and red wax seals. This is not just a book;
it is also an art catalogue of the never-seen-before artworks by
some of the top artists in the world.
By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church
was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant
Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome, celebrated both as the
Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world) had lost its
pre-eminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired
with religious zeal, political guile and a mania for building,
determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the
must-visit destination for Europe's intellectual, political and
cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of
Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important
living artist: no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt and
Velazquez. Together, Alexander VII and Bernini made the greatest
artistic double act in history, inventing the concept of soft power
and the bucket list destination. Bernini and Alexander's creation
of Baroque Rome as a city more beautiful and grander than since the
days of the Emperor Augustus continues to delight and attract.
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