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"Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech, Marquis of Pubol, was born in Catalonia on May 11, 1904, and died on January 23, 1989. Best known as a surrealist painter, his artistic output also included film, sculpture, photography and writing. Dalis is also notorious for his eccentric behaviour and his involvement with the Dada movement, which often drew more attention to himself than his art. In this new narrative exploration of Salvador Dali,...

Filmmaker Jack Bond Jack travels to Stockholm, Sweden where the Moderna Museet is holding an exhibition of Dali's work and revisits his 1965 film, Dali in New York. Jack explores the enigmatic character of Dali and the surreal nature of his own films. As part of his investigation Jack discusses Dali and his work with museum curators and art historians. He reminisces about his friendship with Salvador Dali and the making of his film. Through the journey...

This new catalogue raisonné - designed for world-wide reference - represents the very best introduction to the oeuvre of the "painter of painters". It is the culmination of twenty years of scientific research and study by the Wildenstein Institute, incorporating historical documents, thorough analyses, a comprehensive bibliography, an index of names and subjects, and is aimed at a wider audience - professionals as well as art lovers and students"--Jacket....

Francisco Goya has often been described as the last of the great old masters and the first of the new. He painted sublime portraits of the Spanish royal court and celebratory pictures of the good life in Spain. But he also produced some of the most harrowing images of human cruelty ever created, an unflinching vision that set him apart from almost any other painter in history. Tim Marlow explores works such as the Naked Maja, the Disasters of War...

Diego de Silva y Velàzquez emerged as a master practitioner of a secular artform. His masterpiece, Las Meninas, is a painting full of mystery and intrigue. Under the watchful eye of Count-Duke Olivares, Velàzquez single-handedly redefined the image of the Spanish monarchy. Whilst Velàzquez's output was dominated by royal portraiture, he also produced psychologically insightful studies of people at the margins of society. Velàzquez's unique...

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. This volume, published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death, features new photographs of recently cleaned and restored paintings, revealing hitherto unknown facets of his art. Born in Crete in 1541 under Venetian rule, raised in the iconographic traditions of Byzantine art, and acquainted with both Greek Orthodox and...