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At the dawn of the automobile age, Americans’ predilection for wanderlust prompted a new wave of inventive entrepreneurs to cater to this new mode of transportation. Starting in the 1920s, attention-grabbing buildings began to appear that would draw in passing drivers for snacks, provisions, souvenirs, or a quick meal. The architectural establishment of the day dismissed these roadside buildings as “monstrosities”.

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. This work offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio’s entire œuvre with a catalogue raisonné of his works. Each painting is reproduced in large format, with recent, high production photography allowing for dramatic close-ups with Caravaggio's ingenious details of looks and gestures. Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio's artistic career from his early struggle to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, and his growing celebrity status. They look at his increasing daring with lighting and with a boundary-breaking naturalism which allowed even biblical events to unfold with an unprecedented immediacy before the viewer.

Caravaggio, o para ser más exactos Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), siempre fue una figura de relevancia. El artista, considerado un rebelde de la pintura italiana, fue a la vez alabado y vapuleado. De temperamento violento y tecnica precisa, fue un maestro creativo y un fugitivo de la justicia. En la actualidad se le considera una de las figuras más influyentes de toda la historia del arte. Esta edición ofrece un ordenado pero exhaustivo catalogue raisonne (catálogo exhaustivo, con todas las obras conocidas) de Caravaggio. Todas sus pinturas se reproducen a partir de fotografías recientes de gran calidad que permiten disfrutar en primera persona del genial repertorio de miradas y gestos del artista y de numerosos detalles de ese personal realismo que traspasaba límites. Los cinco capítulos que lo completan recorren toda la trayectoria de Caravaggio, desde sus primeros encargos públicos en Roma hasta el punto más alto de su celebridad. Asimismo, la detallada cronología del libro repasa su tempestuosa vida personal, en la que lo trágico tuvo el mismo protagonismo que los claroscuros en sus lienzos.

The sophistication and modern femininity of the American luxury fashion house Carolina Herrera is captured in this evocative and vividly hued volume photographed by Elizaveta Porodina. A collaborative series of images, the first chapter of which was created in 2020 over Zoom, feature Porodina’s signature timeless, painterly style—an effect achieved through complex lighting techniques and equipment— capture the brand’s evolving collections designed by Creative Director Wes Gordon in a dreamy, otherworldly light. Inspired by dance, movement and the Herrera signature of bold color, this mesmerizing tome is flooded with photography of models and dancers in motion to reflect the vibrant energy and optimism of the clothing, arranged according to the chroma wheel instead of chronologically. Ethereal beauties, including singer and actress Dove Cameron, dancers Wendy Wheelan and Misa Kuranaga, and models Maggie Maurer and Mao Xing Xing, wear sweeping ballgowns, bold, saturated colors and dramatic silhouettes across ten collections designed by Wes Gordon over the past four years, capturing the fantastical universe of Beauty that is Carolina Herrera.

Siga los pasos de la realeza, las celebridades y los mejor vestidos del mundo, y sumérjase en el lujoso universo de Cartier. Recorra la historia de la famosa joyería y relojería, desde sus humildes comienzos en el París del siglo xix hasta el deslumbrante imperio que es ahora. Descubra cómo la ambiciosa familia Cartier revolucionó el diseño, cautivó a marajás y presidentes, forjó estratégicas relaciones creativas y se hizo popular con diseños emblemáticos como el Panthère, el Tank y el brazalete Love.