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Apart from current considerations, issues related to bullfighting have been projected in the plastic arts over several centuries, evidencing the deep roots that bullfighting poetry has exercised in th...

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, during the fleeting period of peace and economic boom called the belle epoque, a current of artistic renewal developed in practica...

Why is provenance so important? The provenance of a wine (its origin, life cycle and storage) is of utmost importance when buying and selling at auction. What is the first thing you look for in...

Oriental art has always held a great fascination for western man. to the. From the first commercial contacts along the Silk Road, Europeans have been fascinated by the strange translucent material tha...

For a few decades now, Chinese contemporary Chinese art began a period of expansion and internationalization that is reflected in the growing interest it aroused in the Western art scene. . In a relat...

"This is the man". These were the words spoken by Pilate when he presented Jesus Christ, suffering and mocked, to the crowd before his crucifixion. Their intention was to mock him, mocking along with...

The most emblematic toy-making houses that were developed in interwar Europe are represented in the collection that Setdart is putting out to tender these days in its online gallery: a miniature world...

Demétre Chiparus (1886-1947) is one of the greatest exponents of Art Deco sculpture. Born in Romania, he studied first in Italy with the sculptor Raffaello Romanelli and in 1912 he moved to Paris to s...

The Basque painter Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1945) He arrived in the French capital in 1889 and, as a good end-of-the-century bohemian, first settled in Montmartre , where he meets Basque and Catalan coun...

A veduta is a detailed representation of urban views, typical of 18th century Italian painting . They were especially popular with aristocratic Grand Tour travelers, who acquired views of the places v...

From his early youth, Joaquim Mir was part of the most anti-academic artistic circles. At the age of twenty, in his native Barcelona, with his friends Isidre Nonell and Ramon Pichot, among others, the...

José María Sert (Barcelona, 1874 - 1945) was the most eminent decorator painter of his time, and his style was characterized by great imagination at the service of a rhetorical language influenced by...

Once again, Setdart brings together in its collection of wines an exquisite selection, giving prominence on this occasion to the autochthonous varieties, from the most reputed sagas of the Spanish ter...

The dizzying transformation of the French capital during the last third of the 19th century, the result of the urban renovation promoted by Haussmann, with its avenues and boulevards where the burgeon...

Vivien Leigh was one of the most iconic and admired actresses of the 20th century, acclaimed for her exceptional talent and her captivating beauty. From a young age she was interested in acting and pl...

The arrival of abstract art in Spain in the 1950s meant not only the adoption of a specific aesthetic, but also a critical stance against the autarky regime installed since the Franco dictatorship. Th...

The saga of porcelain produced in the French city of Limoges begins in 1768, when a woman in the town of St. Yrieixin finds a soft white substance on the ground. Little did he imagine that it was kaol...

Luis Feito was living in Paris when he made “485 bas” (1965). It was a time when his work began to attract the attention of the most prestigious galleries in the French capital. In Madrid environments...

  At the end of the 19th century, the landscape genre in Catalonia experienced a time of splendor that opened the way for a whole generation of artists who, like Dionís Baixeras, took Catalan la...

  Valencian art experienced a golden age from the second half of the 19th century in which Joaquín Sorolla and his contemporaries began the well-known Valencian luminism. To this prolific curren...

Among the best finisecular landscape painters of the 19th century, Martín Rico stands out , who, as a pioneer in the introduction of the realistic landscape in Spain, gave rise to the modernity of the...

Juan Muñoz is undoubtedly one of the leaders in the renewal of contemporary sculpture . His short but brilliant career has left us one of the most disturbing, radical and lucid artistic testimonies of...

José Guerrero arrived in the United States in 1949 of November, to begin the stage that would forever transform the future of his career. With a background marked by the work of the great masters of t...

Elegance and avant-garde (Elegance and Edge) was the ema that Christopher Guy championed Throughout his brilliant career, two attributes that would be materialized in a prodigious way in his luxury fu...

His palatial appearance is obvious ; Five meter ceilings, room after room and each with its use, gardens, gazebos, stained glass windows, a modest Parisian opulence in the heart of Barcelona. That app...

Stars like Audrey Hepburn and Sean Connery, as well as all the great royal families have found in Marbella Club Hotel the perfect retreat. Their rooms witnessed lavish parties, steamy love affairs, an...

The spirit of modernity that underlies each of RàfolsCasamada's works has managed to prevail over any passing fad, fitting almost organically into any setting. Whether in interiors with a minimalist c...