Pinacoteca soñada : Caminando entre pintores

This book brings together a series of columns on art and aesthetics that Rafael Argullol published in the press over the course of three years, offering readers an imaginary museum. Although the order of the collected works was determined by the chance way they came to the writer’s mind week after week, the result is a revealing visual atlas of the West. From the primal purity of Giotto or Fra Angelico and the pinnacles of Da Vinci, Dürer, and Michelangelo to the modern explosion of Goya, Van Gogh, Picasso, Magritte, and Francis Bacon—not to mention the dramatic chiaroscuro of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Velázquez—this work offers a masterclass on the power of the gaze, the mystery of beauty, and the capacity of painting to represent the heights and depths of the human condition.