There are cars considered true works of art for their beauty, their singularity and their history, but they're still the result of a process that begins with Design. We could get into the…
The birth of the Prado Museum as Spain's great national art museum was preceded, as we saw in the previous chapter, by the creation of other national museums, such as the Louvre, the…
The hyperrealist school appears in the 60s with a hidden goal, which is none other than competing with photography. After photography turned up in the middle of the 19th century, painting…
At the end of the 18th century some of the most important public museums in Europe began to open, such as the Vatican Museums in Rome or the Louvre in Paris. In 1780 the…
From the discovery of America onwards, the Spanish crown enjoyed a long period of great splendour that encouraged the creation of impressive art collections among the Spanish aristocracy and royalty…
In the previous chapter, about Painting Cabinets, we discovered that the art market in Europe was already very international, so buying large collections from…
In the previous chapter, The Wunderkammern and the natural history cabinets, we discovered two very particular collecting spaces, focused on the study of the natural world from a…
Wunderkammern or chambers of wonders and natural history cabinets were two of the collecting spaces par excellence of the 16th and 17th centuries in central Europe. These spaces…