These frescoes of ancient Mexico were executed at the height of the classical Maya period, between the 4th and the 10th centuries. They achieve their highest form of expression at Bonampak which has only recently been excavated in the depths of an impenetrable jungle.
Since its publication in 2002, Vision and Art by neurobiologist M. Livingstone has become the definitive text on the relationship between biology and art. In this new edition, Livingstone has added new ideas and three entirely new chapters. One new chapter examines how we see and process specific object categories, such as faces, for which we have specialized processing regions in our brains...
This book is a continuation of Czech Classic Painting of the 19th Century, published by Artia in 1955. The period dealt with is the transition period of the last third of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. In this book we have set ourselves a modest task: to present, within the limits imposed, the main characteristics of some of the most important personalities of the time...
