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No other architect in the history of Western art has had an influence so spontaneous and yet so enduring as Andrea Palladio. Palladianism broke through all cultural stylistic barriers. It spread not only throughout the Neo-Latin nations but held Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the countries of Eastern Europe in its sway and formed the...

The collection "Sex Landscapes" brings together a rich selection from Helmut Newton's little-known landscape and travel photographs, as well as unseen "tougher" sex pictures, described by Philippe Garner of de Pury Luxembourg as "Helmut's world of dark, brooding seas, baroque statuary, crashing waves, a long desert highway under threatening...

"I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel." - Stanley KubrickOne of the most esteemed filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was also one of the most enigmatic. He broke into the film scene at the age of 26 with the...

"All my films turn upon this idea - there is an effort to show a world without love, characters full of selfishness, people exploiting one another, and, in the midst of it all, there is always-and especially in the films with Giulietta-a little creature who wants to give love and who lives for love." - Federico FelliniForever a circus ringleader at...

"Mystery is mystifying; it is an intellectual thing. Suspense is an emotional thing." -Alfred HitchcockHitchcock's name is synonymous with suspense - that is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling suspense. With masterpieces such as Rebecca, Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)...

The birth of neoclassicismThis spectacular compilation of plates, representing a superb collection of ancient vases, is the fruit of a collaboration between Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), British diplomat and collector, and Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805), an adventurous connoisseur and amateur art dealer. As an envoy to the...