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La obra que presentamos consiste en una síntesis de la evolución de los museos en España y del contexto cultural al que pertenecen. Partiendo de las colecciones y tesoros particulares, se centra en los dos últimos siglos, período de invención y desarrollo del museo como institución pública. Bajo un (...)

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. The Voynich Manuscript is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understand and explore the enigma. Many call the (...)

Anna Tuori is one of the most original and versatile Finnish painters of her generation. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of her continually evolving work and her playful, intriguing, and melancholic oddball world, the center of which is always painting. The book includes a (...)

During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas. The artists would often overstate the beauty of their models, rendering them more beautiful than they actually were.The contemporary representation of the Mother of Christ, however, tended to (...)