Marsilio - Böcker

Rightly or wrongly, its designer is credited with the idea of having associated the construction with a symbolic and imaginative calendar: 365 meters in length, the number of days in a year, four courtyards, like the seasons, fifty-two doors, and ...

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An extraordinary selection of works and a lavish set of illustrations reconstruct in an intimate and thorough way the brief but dazzling trajectory, between creative output and unbridled emotion, followed by Tancredi Parmeggiani, a great exponent ...

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Rome presented through the spectacular paper architecture of Dario Cestaro, in a pop-up book that recounts the city s history with simple texts and curious anecdotes. A fascinating journey through colourful pages that turn into Rome s most famous ...

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Three artists have been selected to represent Italy at the 2017 Venice Biennale: Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey. They are relatively young artists, belonging to the same generation as the curator, and have been prese...

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Val d Europe is a new city created in 1987, located next to the first tourist destination in Europe, Disneyland Paris. The challenge of this unique architectural and urban experience was to design, ex nihilo, a city that simultaneously represents ...

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Beverly Barkat s painting is rooted in a profound and ongoing dialogue with art history. Her study and observation of the figurative and realistic tradition in Western art has resulted in her accumulating a body of knowledge that she draws on dire...

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An homage to Venice, Muniz s project includes a series of completely new photos inspired by the old masters of the Cini Collection, paintings by the likes of Francesco Guardi, Dosso Dossi, and Canaletto. The artist revisits the theme of the capric...

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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is the name of an atlas published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp in 1570, bundling together the knowledge accumulated during the age of discovery and representing the world as a theatre, which in those days didn t refer jus...

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Franco Angeli was one of the leading figures in the Italian art of the post-war period. Often labelled superficially as Pop, he is revealed here, through new documents and studies, as an artist who took a surprising and unprecedented approach to h...

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Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations and on experimentation than on the subject of the work. Music...

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Dancing with Myself investigates the elemental importance of self-representation in art from the 1970s to the present day and the role of the artist as protagonist and subject of the work. Through a wide variety of artistic practices and artists (...

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To speak of restoration in relation to contemporary art seems almost oxymoronic. On the one hand, it is commonly assumed that the art produced in our own time is still too new to need conservation. On the other hand, with some artists deliberately...

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Unlike the other two master Renaissance painters associated with Venice, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto (151994) alone was born in Venice and he left his mark there more than either artist. His paintings can still be found everywhere in the city:...

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Bodies in ecstasy, bodies in tortuous pain, bodies devoid of life and bodies rising to the afterlife: the subject of the human is central to the work Tintoretto (151994) accomplished at the Scuola Grande di San Marco, home to the monumental librar...

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Italian retail designer Duccio Grassi (born 1954) is celebrated internationally for his ability to create mesmerizing store interiors: his clients include Max Mara in New York and Zaras Rome store, and his sensuously sculptural and luminous spaces...

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These 250 photographs capture Sicilian Ferdinando Scianna's (born 1943) work for young Dolce & Gabbana; portraits of luminaries such as Roland Barthes, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabelle Huppert, Milan Kundera and John Lennon; plus ...

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An extraordinary journey through art, politics, and society, with works by artists such as Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano, Mario Merz, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, recounting and reflecting on the contrasts, transform...

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Taking its title from a painting by Carol Rama, Place and Signs gathers works relating to Venice by 30 artists, among them Rebecca Quaytman, Trisha Donnelly, Cinthia Marcelle and Thiago Mata Machado, Martha Wilson, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Ca...

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Departing from his earlier figurative works and engagement with Futurist ideals, Italian painter Osvaldo Licini (18941958) turned away from realism in 1940 and painted only abstract works from then on. His paintings from that fruitful decision eng...

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On the 500th anniversary of the Venetian masters birth, this book shows how Tintoretto used architecture to structure perspective There is no overstating the long shadow of influence that Jacopo Tintoretto (151994) has exerted on the history of We...

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Over 300 newly published works by Letizia Battaglia (born 1935), one of Italy's most celebrated photographers, are collected in this major new survey spanning the entirety of her 30-year photographic career. In photographs and contact prints ...

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On the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel, Israeli artist Beverly Barkat (born 1966) presents her site-specific work, After the Tribes, at the Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome. The work is made up of a four-meter-high metal tower divided in...

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Luc Tuymans: La Pelle documents the most ambitious monographic exhibition of the work of Luc Tuymans (born 1958). The Pinault Collection at Palazzo Grassi has in the past mounted exhibitions of the work of Sigmar Polke, Damien Hirst and Urs Fische...

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This publication presents a photographic history of Italy in the 20th century through the lenses of more than 20 Italian photographersLetizia Battaglia, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Luigi Ghirri, Mario Giacomelli, Mimmo Jodice, Massimo Vitali, Nino Migl...

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Featuring a selection of designers forging a new global identity for Italian fashion What's hot in Italian fashion now, and what soon will be hot. New stars are rising in the Italian fashion worlda varied group comprised of a young generation...

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A beautiful appraisal of the Renaissance sculptor's achievements, contextualized with works by his contemporaries The first thorough overview of the artist in many years, Donatello: The Renaissance reconstructs the outstanding career of one o...

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A career-spanning introduction to the award-winning director of Small Axe, with contributions from Paul Gilroy, Hamza Walker and more Declared by Time "one of the most influential people in the world" in 2014, British filmmaker Steve McQ...

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A concise and affordable overview of Dumas existential portraiture, with previously unseen works An engrossing compendium of more than 100 works from 1984 to the present day by South African painter Marlene Dumas (born 1954), Open-End offers a sel...

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New spatial and architectural works from the influential American multimedia pioneer Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, this monograph presents the most up-to-date compilation of the spatial and archite...

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