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Luis Feito was the penultimate witness of the artistic legacy that the El Paso group gave us. With his recent loss, Rafael Canogar becomes the only living representative of a time when informalism tra...

The iconography of Christ carrying the heavy cross on his ascent to Mount Calvary experienced its own development throughout the history of art, as a result of its adaptation to the expressive peculia...

The importance that the "Ecce Homo" had for the history of art is demonstrated in our next auction on the 20th, in which up to five works on this subject are collected....

You only have to look at the most important red carpets to notice how exotic fauna plays a leading role in many of the jewels of the world's major brands. Bracelets, rings, earrings and chokers are de...

One of the most fascinating and valuable facets of sculpture in Spain is polychrome. When we stop before a piece like the Renaissance reliefs we must imagine that it is very likely that more than one...

The important sculpture that Setdart Subastas is putting up for sale these days was made in this especially exciting period for Agustin Cárdenas. The artist had been awarded a scholarship by the Cuban...

The work of the Valencian Maestro de Perea was paradigmatic of the transition from the Spanish-Flemish period to the Renaissance. Active between 1490 and 1510, the name of the master derives from Pedr...

The fascination of artists with the wandering life of the gypsy people goes back a long time, but it was especially from the romantic era that this attraction transcended the mere search for picturesq...

The idyllic Mallorcan landscape has been a source of inspiration for many of the great Spanish artists who, like Casimiro Tarrassó, found on the island the ideal setting in which to experiment and cap...

The work of Julio Romero de Torres occupies a similar place in the history of Andalusian painting to that occupied by García Lorca in poetic art, since in both the vernacular reached a depth of univer...

It is not an exaggeration to affirm that geopolitical maps translate the mental maps of a certain society, of a certain historical moment. Cartography condenses an image of the world that goes far bey...

Miquel Barceló rose in 2011 as the best-priced living Spanish artist at auction. In fact, the resounding success that he achieved from the beginning led him to be compared with established artists suc...

Setdart presents its new space in Madrid located in the cultural heart of the capital, at Calle Velázquez 7. It is strategically positioned within what is known as the "Golden Mile", as well as next t...

If there is a genre in which Picasso poured his most intimate side, it was undoubtedly the portrait. For it was always the people closest to him who would make up a gallery of portraits that, seen thr...

Zóbel's recognition has crossed our borders, positioning itself as one of the booming artists in the international market and especially in the Asian market. Thanks to the moment of expansion that the...

The communion of spirit and matter governed the creative concept of Jorge Oteiza with an intensity rare in the history of modern and contemporary art, and this dialectical tension between form and emp...

Few figures were more striking in the Basque society of the twenties as the young man Ramón Aras Jáuregui. Perfectly comparable to Jay Gatsby was one of those people who were at all key points in soci...

Perhaps the greatest talent of a painter is undoubtedly the psychological capture of his model and the reflection of this in the work. The expressiveness of the characters usually comes from the poses...

Peninsular sculpture began to be slowly renewed from the end of the 19th century. Starting from precedents ascribed to realism, a first horizon of modernization emerged at the beginning of the 20th ce...

Setdart presents an exclusive collection of Russian icons, never seen before in Spain. A set made up of more than seventy pieces, witnesses of times that have crossed borders to finally reach our room...

Built on centuries of tradition, this beautiful villa nestled in the heart of the Catalan region of Maresme, very close to the beach and the great city of Barcelona, provides you with a transformative...

The graphic work encompasses a great diversity of techniques developed over the centuries that take us from the oldest, such as woodcut that emerged in China in the 7th century, to the most modern suc...

The image of women has been studied and defined throughout history through art, literature and even science, the prototype of the "femme fatal" being one of the most deeply rooted in our cultural imag...

During centuries, portraits have fascinated generations of art lovers, conveying faces that would otherwise have inexorably faded over time. By definition, the portrait is the representation of the p...

Since ancient times, art has used symbolism to express an infinity of concepts and feelings hidden under the physical appearance of everything and everything around us. In this sense, the symbolic cha...

We often find simplistic definitions of Levantine Luminism, interpreting it as a Spanish translation of French Impressionism. A more in-depth look at the Valencian landscape phenomenon and at differen...

The rise of mass consumption would forever transform the concept of art. Until the 1940s, avant-garde art had been associated with conceptual or expressive depth, and was destined for the delight of a...

The creation of the Masriera firm in the mid-nineteenth century was a before and after in the field of artistic jewelry. Behind its exquisite results, materialized in exceptional jewels, there was a l...

Iconography is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting branches in the history of art: etymologically referred to the language of icons, without it we would not be able to distinguish who is rep...

The holidays are coming and with them the moment to enjoy all those plans that we have been waiting for for a long time. Among all of them, cultural leisure will always be a great option to escape fro...