Libros

Born in 1541 in Crete, Domenico Theotokopoulos, known as Greco, made his first apprenticeship in the Byzantine tradition before completing his training in Venice and then in Rome.However, it was in Spain that his art flourished and took root in the 1570s. Attracted by the magnificent promises of (...)

A provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century SpainDiego Velázquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608 1670) has long been a landmark of European art, but this provocative study focuses on its subject: an enslaved man (...)

Hace quince años Eduardo Mencos (agricultor, paisajista y fotógrafo) y Charles Quest-Ritson (historiador, escritor, periodista, editor y traductor inglés) empezaron a fraguar la idea de hacer una vuelta al mundo como Julio Verne, pero con el olivo como protagonista. El resultado de esa aventura por (...)