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Landscape designer Michael Cooke presents five of his superbly designed gardens, including his own, which are illustrated by the lyrically beautiful photographs of co-author Brigid Arnott. The selected gardens encapsulate the characteristics he considers vital in the making of a truly beautiful, (...)

Gerhard Richter is an exceptional personality not only because his pictures are world famous, but also because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colors and forms nor deliver an intact picture of reality, but rather move between (...)

N. C. Wyeth (1882 1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wyeth and grandfather of Jamie, he was also an (...)

Paraísos y vergeles de agua se extendieron por el territorio de al-Ándalus formando parte de palacios y almunias de recreo. La Alhambra, sede de la dinastía nazarí entre los siglos XIII al XV, representa el culmen de la creación de estos vergeles y jardines del paraíso. Pocas construcciones han (...)

El monumento de Pozo Moro, uno de los descubrimientos más importantes de la arqueología española del siglo XX, es imprescindible para conocer la cultura ibérica y la coloni zación fenicia del Mediterráneo. Descubierto hace 50 años en una finca de Chinchilla, Albacete, su excavación y los estu dios (...)