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Enric González amó Londres mucho antes de conocerla. Provisto de un plan de singular inconsistencia, decidió irse a Inglaterra a vivir del aire.Y lo consiguió. Para su fortuna, pudo vivir también de un sueldo de periodista, lo cual mejoró su nutrición de forma considerable. Elperiodismo y algunas (...)

Ciertos conocimientos son perfectamente innecesarios. Se puede vivir muy feliz sin saber con qué truculencia surgió la cúpula del rascacielosChrysler, por qué los Yankees son el equipo supremo en Nueva York, cuál es la relación entre Arabia Saudí y la cerveza de Brooklyn, por quéla grasa de los (...)

Historias de Roma no es una guía turística ni un compendio de tópicos, sino un recorrido personal por una Roma fascinante, en ocasiones secreta. En sus páginas encontrará el lector una sucesión de historias, personajes,momentos y escenarios romanos: los gatos, las pinturas del Caravaggio, la casa y (...)

Desde hace ya décadas se han ido desarrollando en diferentes países algunas experiencias educativas que han procurado acercar el patrimonio arqueológico y la arqueología a las aulas. Las características propias de esta disciplina facilitan la introducción de determinados elementos clave para el (...)

Expressing one of many Luba sub-styles, the tall, standing male figures created by master carvers of the Hemba culture in southeastern Congo since at least the mid-1800s arguably rank among the noblest sculptural depictions of the human figure in sub-Saharan Africa. With their serene gaze and (...)

The first book to focus on Monet's work through his representation of architecture In an innovative approach, Richard Thomson considers Claude Monet's paintings of buildings in their environment, offering a reappraisal of an artist more often associated with landscapes, seascapes, and gardens. (...)

Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable raised (...)

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an (...)

This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid water, wine, milk, oil, or honey was poured from a vessel such as a jug or a bowl onto the (...)

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travelsThomas Cole (1801 1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with (...)