Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his...
Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested...
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence...
Immaginate di aver costruito un apparecchio (sul tipo di una radio-trasmittente) capace di emettere impulsi capaci a loro volta di innescare la ben nota reazione a catena in tutte le ogive nucleari attualmente esistenti in tutte le basi atomiche del...
Classico romanzo d’automazione, ma anche di indiavolato divertimento, Il sistema riproduttivo ha considerato John Sladek fra i grandi della fantascienza e la sua pubblicazione in questa collana non poteva mancare. Molte volte la SF si è...
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer....