Publications

CAEM publications, on paper or in digital format, include specific scientific-technical reports and analyses, exhibition catalogs or historical-artistic research carried out by the members of the center.

Before publication, our texts are subject to peer review and evaluation by external independent experts.

 

To purchase any of our publications, you can go to the virtual store of Editions and Publications of the University of Lleida (CAEM Collections), or click the buy button below the image. For more information contact us directly: caem.gestion@udl.cat

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Francisco de Zurbarán. Santa Inés

MARTÍ, Jésica; COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 978-84-18514-85-2
  • Publishing: La Imprenta CG and CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 11
  • Language: Spanish and english
  • Pages: 168, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2023
  • Price: 32€

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Complete analytical study of a majestic work of art executed c. 1635 by Francisco de Zurbarán (Fuente de Cantos, 1598-Madrid, 1664). An artwork that captivated numerous art historians for more than a century and a half, who considered it “one of the most beautiful saints made by Zurbarán”. The authorship of the work was questioned in 2010 without a strong argument.

This publication analyzes the artwork in detail, with beautiful high-resolution macrophotographs that reflect Zurbarán’s technique. In addition, the work is compared with others made by the artist, and all the analytical techniques used on the work are explained in detail, conclusively arguing the restitution of the attribution of it to the Extremaduran master.

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Picasso: sus primeros dibujos. La génesis del artista más excepcional del siglo XX

COMPANY, Ximo; in collaboration with Miriam Carmona

  • ISBN: 978-84-18514-69-2
  • Publishing: La Imprenta CG and CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios de Pintores, 2
  • Language: Spanish and english
  • Pages: 124, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2022
  • Price: 29€

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In the 18th century, Mozart, when he was only five years old, composed prodigious musical works. Picasso, at the end of the 19th century, long before he began to speak, “was already drawing”, and grew up capturing everything around him with a pencil. At the age of 11, in various croquis and sketches of La Coruña, Pablo Ruiz was prefiguring the most important visual, perceptive, communicative and expressive revolution of the 20th century. This book proposes to revisit the formidable drawings of Picasso in his period in La Coruña (1891-1895). It is decisive to remember that Picasso himself always repeated that he never made drawings as a child “not even when he was very young”. His gaze was always adult. And his retina already contained budding everything that was to come. The substance of these drawings is proverbial. It requires examining them very carefully to notice how the birth of one of the greatest geniuses in the history of universal art is gestated.
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The mural paintings of the Tournament-battle by Pisanello. Artistic diagnosis, study of the technique and interpretative proposal

ARTONI, Paola; BERTELLI, Paolo; HERRERO-CORTELL, Miquel Àngel; RAÏCH CREUS, Marta

  • ISBN: 978-84-9144-397-1
  • Publishing: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudis Monogràfics de Pintura, 10
  • Language: Spanish and catalan
  • Pages: 211, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2022
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Joaquín Sorolla Bastida. Self-Portrait

MARTÍ, Jésica; COMPANY, Ximo; VILLALBA, Ana; DÍEZ, Salut; GARÍN, Felipe V.; PÉREZ, Francisco Javier

  • ISBN: 978-84-18514-70-8
  • Publishing: La Imprenta CG and CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudis Monogràfics de Pintura, 9
  • Language: Spanish and english
  • Pages: 148, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2022
  • Price: 22 €

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Complete analytical study of a magnificent artwork by Joaquín Sorolla in his early youth (Valencia, 1863 – Cercedilla, Madrid, 1923), when the author painted a self-portrait at the beginning of his academic period in Italy, around 1885. The study carried out by CAEM researchers, has been executed with a choral, plural and collective analytical look, in collaboration with numerous advisers and recognized specialists who have been able to study the work live. A study that has lasted about two years. This publication analyzes the work in detail, with beautiful high-resolution macrophotographs that reflect the technique that Sorolla employs in this intimate and personal artwork. In addition, the piece is compared with other portraits of the artist, including photographs of Sorolla in which his particular physiognomy is analyzed and compared, verifying its coincidence with the artwork studied, thus considering that it is one of the first self-portraits executed by the Valencian master.

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Velázquez. The Expressive Flow of his Painting

GARRIDO, Carmen

  • ISBN: 978-84-18514-59-3 (luxe version)
  • Publishing: La Imprenta CG and CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios de Pintores, 3
  • Language: Spanish and english
  • Pages: 375, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2022
  • Price: 70€

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Fifteen magnificent paintings carefully analyzed and attributed to Diego Velázquez (Sevilla, 1599 – Madrid, 1660), one of the greatest geniuses of the Spanish Golden Age, by Carmen Garrido. With this publication, CAEM pays tribute to this great collaborator of our center. The volume includes previously unpublished texts along with revisions and additions made by the author herself shortly before her unexpected death on December 8, 2020.

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Velázquez. The Expressive Flow of his Painting

GARRIDO, Carmen

  • ISBN: 978-84-18514-57-9
  • Publishing: La Imprenta CG and CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios de Pintores, 3
  • Language: Spanish and english
  • Pages: 375, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2022
  • Price: 60€

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Fifteen magnificent paintings carefully analyzed and attributed to Diego Velázquez (Sevilla, 1599 – Madrid, 1660), one of the greatest geniuses of the Spanish Golden Age, by Carmen Garrido. With this publication, CAEM pays tribute to this great collaborator of our center. The volume includes previously unpublished texts along with revisions and additions made by the author herself shortly before her unexpected death on December 8, 2020.

Velázquez. El fluir expresivo de su pintura
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Jaume Ferrer II. El retaule de la Paeria de Lleida

PUIG, Isidro

  • Publication: open access
  • Publishing: Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Catalan
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 8
  • Pages: 90
  • Pub. Year: 2022

In the Lleida of the 15th century, the most important altarpiece painters were, without a doubt, members of the same lineage, the Ferrers. The first known painter of this lineage is Jaume Ferrer I, a name that distinguishes him from his son, Jaume Ferrer II, who is the central artistic figure or greatest exponent of 14th century Gothic painting from Lleida.

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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Retrato de Juana Galarza de Goicoechea / Portrait of Juana Galarza de Goicoechea

COMPANY, Ximo; MARTÍ, Jésica

  • ISBN: 978-84-18514-28-9
  • Publishing: La Imprenta CG
  • Language: Spanish and English (bilingual edition)
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 7
  • Pages: 112, extensively illustrated with 77 full-colour images
  • Pub. Year: 2021
  • Price: 19€
A complete analytical study that allows us to attribute to Goya a magnificent drawing portraying Juana Galarza de Goicoechea, the mother-in-law of his son, Francisco Javier Goya. The high-resolution macro-photographs allows to analyse the physiognomy of the woman depicted and the ductus of the work is also contrasted with the style of the Aragonese master. The formal and historical-artistic study developed over three years of intense and contrasted work, is presented with the support of a large group of advisors and recognised specialists who, together with the CAEM researchers, directly studied the portrait.
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Velázquez. The pleasure of seeing painting

COMPANY, Ximo

Preface of Jonathan BROWN

  • ISBN: 978-84-9743-834-6
  • Publishing: Editorial Milenio y Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM), Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios de Pintores, 1
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 174, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2018
  • Price: 28€

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Velázquez. The pleasure of seeing painting
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Velázquez. El placer de ver pintura

COMPANY, Ximo

Preface of Jonathan BROWN

  • ISBN: 978-84-9144-055-0
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 174, richly illustrated
  • Pub. Year: 2017
  • Price: 28€

It is a deep reflection about Velázquez and his painting and about the irreplaceable value of the gaze in the proper development of the History of Art in the 21st century. To know you have to see and to see you have to look. We must learn “to open the eyes, instead of loosening our lounges” (Gombrich). We must learn to see with the eyes of the soul, the soul and the depth of works of art, of Velázquez’s paintings; see and contemplate without haste. Perhaps without much critical baggage; this one, sometimes, weighs too much and tires; distracts. Velázquez’s Las Meninas requires us to use our important inner gaze and this book invites us to recover it. Because if we, art historians do not exercise this gaze, who will?

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Francisco de Goya. Carles IV / Portrait of King Carlos IV

PUIG, Isidro; COMPANY, Ximo; TOLOSA, Luisa

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-857-7
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 6
  • Language: Spanish and English (bilingual edition)
  • Pages: 168, extensively illustrated with full-colour images
  • Pub. Year: 2016
  • Price: 19€

Comprehensive analytical study that enables us to attribute to Goya a magnificent portrait of Charles IV, the first of an extensive series that the Aragonese painter made of the Bourbon king. The study enables us to discover the original prototype and sketch that Goya made and patented between February and April 1789, that is to say, the manner in which Goya designed and carried out the first official portrait of King Charles IV. Convincing evidence has been provided by the highly skilled analytical team of the University of Lleida, which was obtained after three years of intense study by means of a plural, collective, transversal and multidisciplinary focus that is called for by 21st century art history.

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Guía de Lleida. Una gran ciudad toda por descubrir

COMPANY, Ximo (dir.); BERLABÉ, Carme; LÓPEZ, Clara; NIÑÁ, Meritxell; PUIG, Isidro

ISBN: 978-84-8409-7938
Publisher: CAEM-University of Lleida
Language: Spanish. Also available in Catalan.
Pages: 296
Edition year: 2017
Price: 18€

This comprehensive guide, with maps, routes and nearly 1000 photos is essential to visit Lleida. It is addressed to the people of Lleida and to those visitors with great cultural and tourist expectations, who wish to discover the unique charm of this city. In this guide, you will find everything you need to visit in the Ponent capital and its neighborhoods: its rich cultural, artistic heritage, its history, legends and traditions, as well as festivities and cultural and leisure offer. You have also the best restaurants, bakeries, shops, bars and wide information (addresses, telephones and webs) about institutions, associations, civic and cultural centres, services, transport media and everything you need.

Lleida Guide
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La Vall de Boí: World heritage site

CAEM, C. López (coord.)

  • ISBN: 9788484097525
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: English (catalan, spanish and french)
  • Pages: 96
  • Pub. Year: 2016
  • Price: 15,95€

An essential pocket guide to discover one of the most beautiful and unique valleys in Europe. Lush nature in its purest form, abundant, crystal-clear water, pristine snow, ancient ‘fallas’ with an authentic purifying fire; the most unique Romanesque art in the world and traditional, one of a kind cuisine, the tastiest in the Catalan Pyrenees.

New Guide Boi Valley
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The Pantocrator of Sant Climent de Taüll. The light of Europe

CAEM; COMPANY, Ximo (coord.)

  • ISBN: 9-7884-8409-868-3
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: English (catalan, spanish and french)
  • Pages: 63
  • Pub. Year: 2016
  • Price: 12,95€

An entertaining and profusely illustrated book that explains the extraordinary beauty and the wealth of meaning in the most important Romanesque paintings (12th century). A book to discover and understand why the Pantocrator of Sant Climent de Taüll is a treasured part of European culture and a unique part of world heritage.

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El pintor Joan de Joanes y su entorno familiar

PUIG, Isidro; COMPANY, Ximo; TOLOSA, Luisa

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-765-5
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 360
  • Pub. Year: 2015
  • Price: 35€

Work that includes the collection and review of all documents related to the family of painters Macip, which are the most important core of the Valencian painting of the sixteenth century, and especially its most illustrious member, Joan de Joanes (c.1505 -1579), certainly the most complete and best equipped of all the Spanish Renaissance painter painting. They are reviewed and updated biographical and professional profiles.

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Plumas y pinceles son iguales. Teatro y pintura en el Siglo de Oro

GÓNZALEZ, Lola (coord.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-800-3
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 167
  • Pub. Year: 2015
  • Price: 15€

This publication brings together a series of studies that relates the pictorial drama during the Golden Age : Tirso de Molina (Meunier) Rojas Zorrilla ( Vavarro Durán), Lope de Vega and Calderón (Trambaioli). It is known, moreover, that the arts influenced a very specifical type of theatre, The Real Machine, fun which had a great success during the seventeenth century (Pascual Bonis). Even the authors of the stature of Miguel de Cervantes (The Colloquium los perros) also expressed their interest in puppets.

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 L’Església de Sant Llorenç de Lleida

COMPANY, Ximo (dir); NIÑÁ, Meritxell; PUIG, Isidro; amb la col·laboració de Mn. Tarragona

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-777-8
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Catalan and spanish
  • Pages: 56
  • Pub. Year: 2015
  • Price: 15€
This publication makes available to everyone the many elements of this heritage jewel in the city of Lleida, both in terms of its spectacular Romanesque and Gothic architecture as the art treasures which houses, among which the only set of stone Gothic altarpieces.
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Guia de Lleida. Una gran ciutat. Tota per descobrir

COMPANY, Ximo (dir); BERLABÉ, Carme; LÓPEZ, Clara; NIÑÁ, Meritxell; PUIG, Isidro

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-7938
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 296
  • Pub. Year: 2015
  • Price: 18€

This publication, filled with maps, routes and almost 1.000 photographs, is the essential guide of Lleida. It is addressed both to all those who want to know the magic of this unique city, Lleida, and visitors with tourist and cultural expectations. In this guide you will find everything that you can visit and enjoy in the Western capital and its environment: its rich cultural heritage and artistic monuments, history, legends and traditions, as well as festivals and entertainment. You will also find the best restaurants, bakeries, hotels, shops and bars. In addition, this guide is provided with extensive information (addresses, phone numbers and websites) of institutions, associations, civic and cultural centers, services, transportation and so on.

Guia de Lleida. Una gran ciutat. Tota per descobrir
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L’Església Parroquial de Santa Maria de l’Alba de Tàrrega

COMPANY, Ximo; GARGANTÉ, Maria; NIÑÁ, Meritxell

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-754-9
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 48
  • Pub. Year: 2015
  • Price: 12€

It is a short publication that summarizes and explains, in simple but at the same time rigorous language essential architecture and painted decoration elements of the Tàrrega’s Santa Maria de l’Alba church. At the same time, it is a tool that enriches the cultural visit experience in this unique temple. Also, when you read this book, you will find that what you are reading is directly related to the selected images.

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El Museu de Santa Clara – Gandia. Obres Mestres

ALIAGA, Joan

  • ISBN: 978-84-9743-676-2
  • Publishing: Ajuntament de Gandia, Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM), Real Monsaterio de Santa Clara de Gandia and Editorial Milenio
  • Language: Spanish, valencian and english
  • Pages: 80
  • Pub. Year: 2015
  • Price: 10€

This is a publication aimed at spreading through high quality photographs, some masterpieces preserved in the Museum.

Obres mestres Museu Santa Clara, Gandia. CAEM.

El gran valor de les lletres i les humanitats. Homenatge al Dr. Frederic Vilà i Tornos

Autors diversos

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-6559
  • Publishing: Edicions i publicacions de la UdL, Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM) and Departament d’Història de l’Art i Història Social de la UdL
  • Language: Multilingual
  • Pages: 334
  • Pub. Year: 2015
  • Price: 24€
It is an homage to a teacher and a researcher very significant in the University studies in Lleida retaking and development, especially in the Arts and Humanity field. It offeres a miscellaneous deliberately open that includes contributions from experiences with teacher and architect Vilà memories to poems, personal reflections, essays and critical scientific research about Art History, History, Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Museology, Philology and Literature.
Homenatge al Dr. Frederic Vilà i Tornos
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Bramante en Roma. Roma en España. Un juego de espejos en la temprana edad moderna

COMPANY, Ximo; FRANCO, Borja; REGA, Iván (Eds)

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-6382
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 240
  • Pub. Year: 2014
  • Price: 30€

To commemorate the fifth centenary of the death of Donato Bramante (Rome, 1514), a new collective work comes to light, joining and combining several researches on the figure and activity of the “Roman Bramante”, even before the patronage of Julius II della Rovere; as well as his reception in the Iberian Peninsula. While so many researchers avoid facing such a complex puzzle, in this occasion the editors offer different “looks” at the creation of a new classic code, different “Renaissance models” and communication channels with Bramantesc patterns both in the East and in the coetaneous architecture in other territories of the Crown of Aragon. An important part of the artistic historiography of the Renaissance understood, even nowadays, that there are “narrations” which were, and still are, necessary to revise; and the destiny of Bramante is not an exception.

Libro Bramante en Roma. CAEM, UdL.
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La Catedral del Santo Cáliz. Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Santa María

COMPANY, Ximo (dir.), FRANCO, Borja; ALIAGA, Joan; PUIG, Isidro; RAMÓN, Núria

  • ISBN: 978-84-9743-631-1
  • Publishing: Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM), Metropolitan Basilica Cathedral Church of Saint Mary of Valencia, Editorial Milenio
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 86 + 81 illustrations in colour; format 24 x 17.2 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2014
  • Price: 15€

Historical and artistic guide of the most important and emblematic temple in the Comunitat Valenciana. It allows to go all over the rooms, naves, the main altar and the chapels of the Cathedral of Valencia through a complete and profusely illustrated tour. It is an indispensable guide written in a pleasant, clear and precise way, appropriate for tourists, experts and the general public. It has been published in three different versions, carefully designed: in Spanish, English and Italian.

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Cathedral of the Holy Chalice. Metropolitan Holy Church Cathedral Basilica of Santa María

COMPANY, Ximo (dir.), FRANCO, Borja; ALIAGA, Joan; PUIG, Isidro; RAMÓN, Núria

  • ISBN: 978-84-9743-632-8
  • Publishing: Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM), Metropolitan Basilica Cathedral Church of Saint Mary of Valencia, Editorial Milenio
  • Language: Italian
  • Pages: 86 + 81 illustrations in colour; format 24 x 17.2 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2014
  • Price: 15€
Historical and artistic guide of the most important and emblematic temple in the Comunitat Valenciana. It allows to go all over the rooms, naves, the main altar and the chapels of the Cathedral of Valencia through a complete and profusely illustrated tour. It is an indispensable guide written in a pleasant, clear and precise way, appropriate for tourists, experts and the general public. It has been published in three different versions, carefully designed: in Spanish, English and Italian.
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La Cattedrale del Santo Calice. Santa Chiesa Cattedrale Basilica Metropolitana di Santa Maria

COMPANY, Ximo (dir.), FRANCO, Borja; ALIAGA, Joan; PUIG, Isidro; RAMÓN, Núria

  • ISBN: 978-84-9743-632-8
  • Publishing: Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM), Metropolitan Basilica Cathedral Church of Saint Mary of Valencia, Editorial Milenio
  • Language: Italian
  • Pages: 86 + 81 illustrations in colour; format 24 x 17.2 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2014
  • Price: 15€

Historical and artistic guide of the most important and emblematic temple in the Comunitat Valenciana. It allows to go all over the rooms, naves, the main altar and the chapels of the Cathedral of Valencia through a complete and profusely illustrated tour. It is an indispensable guide written in a pleasant, clear and precise way, appropriate for tourists, experts and the general public. It has been published in three different versions, carefully designed: in Spanish, English and Italian.

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Paolo Caliari and Giovanni Zelotti (attributted). Venus and Adonis with Cupid and dogs. An open question. An extraordinary version of an unknown original

ARGELICH, M. A.; COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-640-5
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 5
  • Language: English; Spanish and Italian versions also available
  • Pages: 126 + 91 illustrations in color and in black and white; format 24 x 22 cm.
  • Pub. Year: 2014
  • Price: 30€

The artwork featured in this publication, an impressive portrayal of Venus and Adonis with Cupid and dogs,  from a Spanish private collection, is full of enigmas and questions that drive us to the great game of mirrors that sometimes underlies this passionate discipline we call Art History.

While only a few colleagues dare to deal with a puzzle of this kind, the research group of the Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM) at the University of Lleida accepts the attraction of these problems of identity and attribution. They are fascinating challenges that make our team improve its scientific and analytical perspicacity, as well as the sharp estcritical and reflective sense of our profession.

Investigació-CAEM-Veronese-Zelotti-Pintura
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Cornelis de Vos – Pareja de granjeros camino del mercado

REGA, Iván; COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 978-8409-637-5
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 4
  • Language: Spanish; abstract in English
  • Pages: 56 + 40 color illustrations + 11 pigmentary graphics; format 24 x 22 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2014
  • Price: 25€

This study deals with the authorship of a Flemish painting recently discovered –in a private Spanish collection–, Peasants going to the market. The standard analysis (material, iconographic, technical-formal, and stylistic) and comparative study, undertaken by the researchers who authored this text, suggests that this painting could be a second version of the oil on canvas by Cornelis de Vos and his brother in law Frans Snyders in The Iveagh Bequest – Kenwood House (London), Figures with Fruit and Game. Working together on large still-lifes similar to this one, Cornelis de Vos painted the figures, and Snyders executed the animals and the fruits.

Publication subjected to a rigorous evaluation process by national and international external peers outside the CAEM. (peer review).

The Canvas Cornelis de Vos is on sale. Interested parties consult with CAEM.

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Simone Barabino – Resurrección de Lázaro

REGA, Iván; COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-628-3
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 3
  • Language: Spanish; abstract in English
  • Pages: 56 + 38 illustrations in color and black and white + 11 pigmentary graphics; format 24 x 22 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2013
  • Price: 25€

The standard analysis (material, iconographic, technical-formal, and stylistic) and comparative study undertaken by the researchers who authored this text, members of the University of Lleida’s CAEM team, suggests that oil on canvas is an exquisite work of painter Simone Barabino (circa 1585 – 1629). Undoubtedly this is a good quality artwork, which belonged to the Sevillian  canon Manuel López Cepero, one of the most important personalities in early 19th century Andalusia.

Publication subjected to a rigorous evaluation process by national and international external peers outside the CAEM. (peer review).

The Canvas Simone Barabino is on sale. Interested parties consult with CAEM.

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Joaquín Sorolla – Estudio de Cristo

COMPANY, Ximo; AVINYÓ, Gemma

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-629-0
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 2
  • Language: Spanish; abstract in English
  • Pages: 48 + 47 illustrations in color and black and white + 11 pigmentary graphics; format 24 x 22 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2013
  • Price: 25€

The following study, developed by Universitat de Lleida’s “Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna” (CAEM), in this case led by those who have signed this publication, reseach team, brings to light one of the early works by the Valencian painter Joaquin Sorolla (Valencia, 1863 – Cercedilla, 1923 ). Through an exhaustive formal, technical, and stylistic analysis, we have determined the authorship of this artwork, which was considered anonymous. We have relied on a large number of techniques such as infrared reflectography or laser spectroscopy so as to identify the media, including those which have provided us with a better understanding of the pictorial process. Therefore, a comparative analysis with Sorolla’s artistic corpus can be performed.

Publication subjected to a rigorous evaluation process by national and international external peers outside the CAEM. (peer review).

The Canvas Sorolla is on sale. Interested parties consult with CAEM.

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José de Ribera – San Jerónimo estudiando

COMPANY, Ximo; ARGELICH, María Antonia

  • ISBN: 978-84-8409-627-6
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Collection: Estudios Monográficos de Pintura, 1
  • Language: Spanish; abstract in English
  • Pages: 42 + 80 illustrations in color and black and white + 11 pigmentary graphics; format 24 x 22 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2013
  • Price: 25€

The analytical (material, iconographic, formal, and stylistic) and comparative study made by Universitat de Lleida’s Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM) team, of an oil on canvas painting preserved in a private collection in Spain, is an outstanding, exquisite painting by José de Ribera (Xàtiva 1591 – Naples 1652), probably rendered in Naples between 1616 and 1620, during the viceroyship of Don Pedro Téllez Girón y Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Osuna.

Publication subjected to a rigorous evaluation process by national and international external peers outside the CAEM. (peer review).

The Canvas Ribera is on sale. Interested parties consult with CAEM.

Ribera-pintura-Sant Jeroni
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-Christus- Porta Fidei. Obres de Javier Margarit

HIDALGO, José Ángel

  • ISBN: 978-84-9743-556-7
  • Language: Spanish and English
  • Pages: 50
  • Pub. Year: 2013
  • Price: 15€

Exhibition catalogue of  the Valencian artist Javier Margarit’s artwork, displayed in Lleida Cathedral to commemorate the Year of Faith. Available either in Catalan and English and in Spanish and English, the catalogue features a selection of the displayed works –sculpture and engraving–, accompanied by the curator’s reflections and the artist’s thoughts about his aesthetic and iconographic universe.

Margarit-Christus-Expo-CAEM

Bramante mito y realidad

COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 978-84-9743-479-9
  • Publishing: CAEM and Editorial Milenio, Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 145
  • Pub. Year: 2012
  • Price: 23€

Critical study of the work and personality of Bramante, one of theleading architects of the Italian Renaissance. Contains a selection of texts and more than a hundred illustrations to allow deeper reflection on what Franco Borsi in 1989 considered the “Bramantemyth“. That is perhaps an oversized figure in historiography in general, since Vasari in the sixteenth century, when he was considered the “rifondatore dell’architettura” imitator and followerof “fondatore” Brunelleschi. The book also addresses the crucial role that could exert powerful Borgia family in the promotion and consolidation of Bramante in Rome (1499-1503).

Bramante-Company-Ximo-CAEM
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El Arte de la Tapicería en la Europa del Renacimiento

 COMPANY, Ximo; PUIG, Isidre (eds.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-940117-0-2
  • Publishing: University of Lleida, Polièdrica Edicions, Lleida
  • Language: Spanish, French and Catalan
  • Pages: 216
  • Pub. Year: 2012
  • Price: 55€

The publication of the minutes of the First Seminar of Tapestry and Textil Art, organized by the CAEM and carried out at the University of Lleida in September 2010, is a milestone for the study and knowledge of antique tapestries, not just those that make up the collection at the Museu de Lleida, from the Seu Vella, but also other foreign collections that somehow relate to the models of Lleida. This volume is coordinated by Carmen Berlabé and Rosa M. Martín, this publication is the outcome of the First International Seminar on tapestry, which has contributed to an updated and multidisciplinar approach to reference works on the subject by both researchers and amateurs.

Aspects such as patronage, models and codes, technology and production and conservation and restoration are developed masterfully by the hand of the specialists who participated in this first seminar: Rosa M. Martin, Guy Delmarcel, Joaquim Garriga, Carmen Berlabé, Margarita García, Concha Herrero, Victoria Ramirez, Antonio Sama, Antoni Bargalló, Maria Mones, Ana Schoebel, Núria Gilart, Andreu Dengra.

El Arte de la Tapicería en la Europa del Renacimiento
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Legado artístico de la cartuja de Portaceli

FUSTER SERRA, Francisco

  • ISBN: 978-3-902649-96-6
  • Publishing: University of Salzburg
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 596
  • Pub. Year: 2012
  • Price: 30€

The study reflects the artistic legacy of the older of the Valencian Carthusians, and one of the most important foundations of the Iberian Peninsula and its overseas territories. Founded in 1272, by Bishop Fray Andrés de Albalat, it was before the treasure Confiscation a real architectural, artistic, documentary, bibliographic and spiritual treasure, now disappeared in the worst cases or dispersed worldwide.

Published by the University of Salzburg, Austria, and with the collaboration of the cartuja de Portaceli, la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, el Centre d’Art d´Època Moderna de la Universitat de Lleida and la Asociación Cultural Cartuja de Valldecrist.

Portaceli-Cartuja-CAEM
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CAEM. Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna

COMPANY, Ximo; PUIG, Isidro; ARGELICH, María Antonia (eds.)

  • ISBN: (dep. legal Ll-131-2011)
  • Publishing: CAEM-Universitat de Lleida
  • Language: Spanish; summary version in Catalan, English and Italian
  • Pages: 44
  • Pub. Year: 2011
  • Price: 3€

Promotional publication for presenting the Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna of the University of Lleida, including all its facilities and services. Illustrated with numerous color photographs, this catalog allows a clear idea of how this university service works in the study of artistic pieces.

CAEM-UdL-Art-Research

Ut pictura poesis

HERNÁNDEZ GUARDIOLA, Lorenzo (ed.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-936225-9-6
  • Publishing: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos, Valencia
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 147
  • Pub. Year: 2011
  • Price: 8€

Book containing the conferences participating in the series devoted to the relationship between words and images-Ut Pictura-poiesis, conducted in 2009, which included specialists in Literature and Art History.

The volume includes a total of six interventions: Ximo Company, “La poesía de Ausiàs March y el arte Valenciano del siglo XV”; Lorenzo Hernández Guardiola, “Literatura emblemática y el arte efímero barroco en la diócesis de Orihuela”; Ángel Luis Luján Atienza, “La voz y la imagen de Narciso. Un mito pictórico y literario”; Ángel L. Prieto de Paula, “Pasión del absoluto (derivas plástico literárias del prerrafaelismo)”; José Luis Ferris, “Una trilogía de la trasgresión: Maruja Mallo, Alberti y Miguel Hernández”; Román de la Calle, “Más acá de la imagen. Más allá del texto. El papel educativo de la crítica de arte”.

Pictura-poesis-CAEM
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Pintura dels segles XV i XVI a la Corona d’Aragó

NAVARRO BUENAVENTURA, Beatriz (ed.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-937878-5-1
  • Publishing: Ulleye, Xàtiva, series “Una Ullada a la Història”
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 112; format 21 x 15 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2011
  • Price: 9€
Edition of the Proceedings of the Second Conference on Arts, held in Xativa, from 2 to 4 August 2010.

This volume presents the papers generated for the Second Conference of Art, dedicated to the painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries under the former Crown of Aragon. Interventions comprising are: Ximo Company, “La revolució pictòrica dels àngels de la Catedral de València”; Lorenzo Hernández Guardiola, “Onofre Falcó, un misterioso pintor en la Valencia del siglo XVI”; Albert Ferrer Orts and Josep Marí Gómez Lozano, “Al voltant dels Requena i la seua petja a la Costera”; Isidro Puig, “La fotografía digital infrarroja en los análisis estilísiticos de la pintura de los siglos XV y XVI”.

Pintura dels segles XV i XVI a la Corona d’Aragó
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Una nueva obra de Joan de Joanes: La Virgen de la Leche con el Niño Jesús, San José y los Santos Juanitos

COMPANY, Ximo; PUIG, Isidre

  • ISBN: (dep. legal BI-1896-2011 )
  • Publishing: CAEM-University of Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 42 + 68 illustrations in color and black and white, format 24 x 22 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2011
  • Price: 20€
Complete analysis of this up to now unpublished painting.

The quality of the studied painting and the relevance of Joan de Joanes in the shape of the Spanish Renaissance were the reasons of why it was decided to publish this edition of the comprehensive study made in the Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna of the University of Lleida.

Joanes-Virgen Leche-CAEM
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Documents de la pintura valenciana medieval i moderna, III (1401 – 1425)

TOLOSA, Lluïsa; COMPANY, Ximo; ALIAGA, Joan; (eds.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-370-8033-8
  • Publishing: University of Valencia
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 788; format 19 x 27 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2011
  • Price: 35€
The third issue of an ambitious project: to collect and publish all documents relating to Medieval and Modern Valencian painting.

Comprehensive collection of documents relating to medieval and modern Valencian painting, led by Ximo Company as the head of a wide and complete research team. Unpublished documents are provided, exhumed after a long and patient research in many Valencian files, both large deposits of the city of Valencia (Archivo del Reino, Archivo Municipal, Archivo de la Catedral, Archivo de Protocolos del Patriarca), as the Archivo de la Corona de Aragón and the rich local archives in Jérica, Sogorbe, Gandia, Valencia and many other Valencian cities. The researcher will find in this volume hundreds of documents transcribed and edited about painters and paintings, from the details of the orders, to the wages received.

Docs-pintura-valenciana-CAEM
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Sant Francesc de Borja Gran d’Espanya. Art i espiritualitat en la cultura hispànica del segle XVI i XVII

BELTRÁN, Mar; FERRER, Albert

  • Publishing: Impremta Palacios, Sueca
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 39
  • Pub. Year: 2010
  • Price: 3€

Exhibition guide, short and profusely illustrated.

On the occasion of the 5th Centenary of the birth of this saint Duke, the exhibition was a great opportunity to know him in depth and to value his figure. Some of the best specialists bring, in occasion of this exhibition, new visions of the character and his time, combining their studies with a careful selection of art works by authors such as El Greco, Murillo, Zurbaran, Salzillo, Ribera, and so on. It was curated by professors Ximo Company of University of Lleida and Joan Aliaga of Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Exhibition guide, short and profusely illustrated.

Sant Francesc de Borja Gran d’Espanya. Art i espiritualitat en la cultura hispànica dels segles XVI i XVII

COMPANY, Ximo; ALIAGA, Joan (dirs.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-92542-35-2
  • Publishing: Afers, Catarroja
  • Language: Spanish; available in catalan also
  • Pages: 348; format 30 x 24 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2010
  • Price: 40€
An exceptional book to know the multifaceted human dimension of the Duke of Gandia.

Catalogue of the exhibition with the same name, directed by Ximo Company and Joan Aliaga. The volume, full color and large format includes six major studies that contextualize the political, religious and artistic personality, of Saint Francis Borgia, while illustrating the singular importance of his figure not only in the 16th and 17th centuries but also today. There had been reproduced the exhibited art works that bring us closer to the character and his historical context, crossing aesthetic, historical and spiritual looks.

Master pieces of Joan de Joanes, Morales, El Greco, Ribalta, Ribera, Murillo, Zurbarán and Goya, among others, are studied on this volume.

San Francisco de Borja
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Il Rinascimento di Paolo da San Leocadio

COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 978-88-89224-76-2
  • Publishing: Kalos Gruppo Editoriale, Palermo, series “Arte&Immagini”
  • Language: Italian
  • Pages: 248 + illustrations in color and black and white, format 22 x 24 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2009
  • Price: 40€

Monographic section, revised and expanded, dedicated to the painter Paolo da San Leocadio that the same author published in 2006, entitled: “Paolo da San Leocadio i els inicis de la pintura del Renaixement a Espanya” published by Alfons CEIC Gandia Vell.

This is the first monography devoted to the Italian painter Paolo da San Leocadio (1447-1520), a native of Reggio Emilia, arrived in Spain with the entourage of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI, and regarded as a great master and as a driving force of the Renaissance in Spain. The author of this book provides numerous documentaries quotes of the painter and his entire artistic production, documented and attributed, in a lavishly illustrated volume with a full bibliographic reference.

Leocadio-Rinascimento-Company-CAEM

El rol de lo hispano en la pintura mediterránea de los siglos XV y XVI

COMPANY, Ximo; VILALTA, Maria José; PUIG, Isidre (eds.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-96779-13-6
  • Publishing: Garsineu Edicions, Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 398; format 24 x 17 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2009
  • Price: 80€
Another way to look at the Hispanic pictorial features in the European Medieval and Modern context.

This volume gather the papers discussed at the International Seminar dedicated to Hispanic and European painting from 15th and 16th centuries, held at the Universitat de Lleida in October 2005. It contains papers by Mauro Natale, Joan Aliaga, Carmen Morte, Lorenzo Hernández Guardiola, Teresa Pugliatti, María José Vilalta, Adele Condorelli, Isidro Puig, Ximo Company, María Antonia Argelich and Elena Toló.

Pintura-mediterrànea-XV-XVI-CAEM
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Arrels Cristianes. Presència i significació del cristianisme en la història i la societat de Lleida

SOL, Romà; TORRES, Carme; COMPANY, Ximo (dirs.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-9779-538-8
  • Publishing: Pagès Editors, Lleida
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pub. Year: 2007
  • Price: 20€

Up to date, perhaps the most comprehensive study done on bishoprics of the Tarraconense Episcopal Conference, and even of the entire Spanish Episcopal Conference. Four extraordinary volumes, very comprehensive, lavishly illustrated, written by almost a hundred specialists in various branches of knowledge: ecclesiastical, historical, religious, social, cultural and artistic. It is drawn from a strictly scientific and also entertaining way, 1500 years of culture events and Christian spirituality developed in the diocese of Lleida. Allows two parallel and complementary readings: the text itself and the vast and  juicy comments of its illustrations. A magnum opus that allows discover and evaluate objectively and in all its dimensions, the richness of Christian culture.

Cristianisme-Lleida-CAEM

Cristo con la cruz a cuestas

COMPANY, Ximo; PUIG, Isidre

  • ISBN: 978-84-691-8008-2
  • Publishing: CAEM-University of Lleida
  • Language: Spanish
  • Pages: 43
  • Pub. Year: 2008
  • Price: 10€
Comprehensive case study of a painting on panel related to the painter Luis de Morales.

Studies of artworks produced in Centre d’Art d’Epoca Moderna (CAEM) of the University of Lleida often remain unpublished, but now it was considered appropriate to offer this one to the scientific community and, in a special way, to the lovers of art and painting in general.
These investigations seek to penetrate the unknown aspects of the artistic heritage of our country and although this entails difficulty and uncertainty, we are extremely pleased by the rigorously study of unpublished art works and we propose new insights for those that have been apreciated with errors, levity, inertia or accused blurs in their atributions.

Cristo-estudio-Morales-CAEM

Documents de la pintura valenciana medieval i moderna, II. Llibre de l’entrada del rei Martí

ALIAGA, Joan; TOLOSA, Lluïsa; COMPANY, Ximo (eds.)

  • ISBN: 978-84-370-6713-1
  • Publishing: University of Valencia
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 404; format 19 x 27 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2007
  • Price: 35€
The second issue of an ambitious project: to collect and publish all documents relating to the medieval and modern Valencian painting.

This is the transcript of the book of expenses incurred by the city of Valencia to prepare the official entry of King Martin the Humane, which is preserved in the municipality of Claveria Municipal Archives of Valencia, comprising dates May 1401 to September 1402. It appears a lot of unpublished documents of painters (Girardo de Jacobo, Anthoni Perez, Goçalbo Perez, Goçalbo Sarrià, Mestre Marçal e son jove, Antoni Exarch, Johan de la Porta, Domingo del Port, Domingo de Adzuara, Guillem Arnau, Johan Rull), carpenters (Bernat Benyto, Vicent Serra, Bernat Vives, Genís Clot, Berthomeu Sentalina), batifulles (Arnau Sanç) silversmiths (Bernat Sentalina, Francesch Jordi, Berthomeu Oliva).

There are also many references to pictorial material: “carmini, vermelló, adzur, blanquet, violeta, boliermini, almànguena, verdet, vert terrer, orpiment, indi bagadell, ocre, groch, blanch, ous per a les colors, ous per a temprar les colors, losa de molre colors, algepz, plomes de voltor per als pinzells, canyes per als pinzells de cerdes, coes de vays per fer pinzells, coes d’esquirols per pinzells prims, un manoll de plomes d’oca per als pinzells prims, olles e casoles xiques per a tenir les colors, oli de linós, fust de noguer, goma aràbiga, paper de Xàtiva, aygua cuita de Gerona”.

Docs-Valencia-Pintura-CAEM
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Paolo da San Leocadio i els inicis de la pintura del Renaixement a Espanya

COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 84-86927-95-1
  • Publishing: CEIC Alfons el Vell, Gandia
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 248 + illustrations in color and black and white, format 22 x 24 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2006
  • Price: 30€

The book consists of three main interrelated. The first, study Spanish painting ranging from 1450-1525. The second and more importantly, dedicated to the figure of Paolo da San Leocadio (1447-1520), considered the driving force of the Renaissance in Spain. The third block, collects a valuable documentary corpus about the painting and the social and human density of the painter Paolo da San Leocadio in Levantine lands. A volume that is prolifically illustrated with all the known production of the Reggian painter.

Leocadio-pintura-Company-CAEM

Jaume Ferrer II. Pintor de la Paeria de Lleida

PUIG, Isidro

  • ISBN: 978-84-9779-331-5
  • Publishing: Pagès Editors, Lleida
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 312; format 17 x 24 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2005
  • Price: 28€

The work focuses on the professional and biographical study of the most important painter of the fifteenth century Lleida, Jaume Ferrer, known as “II” to distinguish him from his probably predecessor, Jaume Ferrer I, active in the city since late fourteenth century to the first third of the fifteenth.

The book collects all the life and artistic career of the painter, with all references checked and abundant documentary images and details of all his documented and attributed works. The flagship painting group of Jaume Ferrer II is, without doubt, the altarpiece made in the mid-fourteenth century for the city Council of Lleida, known as Paeria, and currently held in the Plenary Hall of the Consistory.

Ferrer-Jaume-Lleida-Puig-CAEM
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Documents de la pintura valenciana medieval i moderna, I (1238 – 1400)

COMPANY, Ximo; ALIAGA, Joan; TOLOSA, Lluïsa; FRAMIS, Maite (eds.)

  • ISBN: 84-370-6161-X
  • Publishing: University of Valencia
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 512; format 19 x 27 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2005
  • Price: 35€
The first issue of an ambitious project, to collect and publish all documents relating to the Medieval and Modern Valencian painting.

Volume that offers the compilation of dispersed published papers of Valencian painting, unified, revised and including unpublished news. Assemble a corpus of 986 documents that have had to delineate between the years 1238 and 1400. It proveides a good amount of information not only for art historians, but also to historians in general, on economic, cultural, social, and others issues.

Pintura-Valencia-CAEM
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Alexandre VI i Roma. Les empreses artístiques de Roderic de Borja a Itàlia

COMPANY, Ximo

  • ISBN: 84-7502-654-0
  • Publishing: Editions 3 and 4, Valencia, series “Biblioteca Borja”
  • Language: Catalan
  • Pages: 508 + 462 illustrations in color and black and white, format 29 x 22 cm
  • Pub. Year: 2002
  • Price: 30€

This is a study of the cultural and artistic personality of the Cardinal and second Borja pope (Xàtiva, 1431 – Rome, 1503). A book which discusses the formation of the aesthetic artistic taste of Rodrigo Borgia during his first years at Valencia, as well as his role as patron of the arts and culture in Rome and the Italian Papal States in the second half of the fifteenth century. Through an extensive written literature, archival work and extensive visual corpus of about 500 images, the reader of this book can stroll through Rome and Renaissance Italy where Rodrigo Borgia lived, where artists such as Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo il Vecchio, Pinturicchio or Leonardo da Vinci worked in the service of Valencian Pope.

Borja-Roma-Art-Company-CAEM
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