Momentos estelares de la historia del arte

Carlos Cubeiro has brought together twenty such moments: the duel of brushes between Apelles and Protogenes, the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel painted with a broken neck, Rembrandt's last self-portrait, the theft of the Mona Lisa, Duchamp's Fountain, the Terracotta Warriors of Xi'an rescued from oblivion, the birth of Mickey Mouse, the Moka pot, the exodus from the Prado Museum during the Civil War, and the Sagrada Familia finally reaching its maximum height… Moments that, together, trace something like a portrait of humankind and contain something of its vanity, its genius, its greed, its capacity to destroy what it does not understand or to venerate what it does not deserve.