Libros

Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur (...)

This book presents magnificent artifacts collected by an aristocratic family of fabulous wealth. It shows goldsmiths' work and jewelry of extraordinary quality, dating from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. These include some of the finest creations of their time by artists such as (...)

Un recorrido cronológico por los principales naufragios de la armada española ocurridos en aguas americanas entre los siglos XV al XIX. Con el telón de fondo de la historia de un imperio naval y económico sin precedentes, el libro se recrea en la descripción de las flotas, las rutas de navegación, (...)