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William Greenwood is Curator at the Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He was previously Albukhary Foundation Curator of the Islamic World at the British Museum and co-curator of the exhibition Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art.

Lucien de Guise is an author and co-curator of the exhibition Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art. Having spent many years working in Malaysia as a museum curator and directo...

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Occasionally, when something seems very familiar you lose sight of what makes it so special: Flemish Masters. From van Eyck to Bruegel sets out to counteract this effect and opens our eyes once again to the revolution that took place in the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th centuries that shaped the course of European art. In 48 lavishly illustrated analyses, Matthias Depoorter explores how painters such as Van Eyck, Van der Weiden, Massys, Bosch, and Bruegel reached unprecedented heights, a...

Seine Begegnung mit der Skulpturensammlung der Glyptothek in München vor drei Jahrzehnten veranlasste Santiago Calatrava (*1951), ein umfangreiches bildhauerisches Werk mit dem Titel "Die Aegineten" zu schaffen. Der Band setzt erstmalig den Fokus auf das skulpturale und malerische Werk des berühmten Architekten, und zeigt, wie er durch die Antike und das Erbe von Hellas beeinflusst wurde.Die Aegineten - vierzehn großformatige Skulpturen aus Schmiedeeisen auf einem Sockel aus gealtertem Eic...