Libros

Las grandes hazañas navales de España frente a su mayor enemigoÁlvaro Van den BruleLa historia naval de España está repleta de hazañas legendarias que la llevaron a convertirse, durante un largo periodo de tiempo, en la dueña de los mares. En pleno auge de la navegación, la monarquía hispánica tuvo (...)

A magnificent photographic compilation of New York City's best new architecture, this book features projects by leading firms working today. From Bjarke Ingels Group's VIA West 57 to SHoP Architects' Barclays Center, and from Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line to SOM's One World Trade Center, New (...)

This stunning volume represents the first serious effort to reposition the history of 18th-century Mexican painting, a highly vibrant period marked by major stylistic changes and the invention of new iconographies. Exquisitely illustrated with newly commissioned photography of (...)

El autor y diversos colaboradores, entre profesores de universidad, veterinarios de campo, aficionados al mundo del caballo y alumnos, se han unido para confeccionar esta obra. El libro intenta homogeneizar, y explica de manera amena y razonablemente científica, cómo llamar a las regiones (...)

Describir la ciudad en siete mil quinientas palabras; en eso consistía el objetivo que E. B. White se había fijado en el tórrido verano de 1948. El resultado es este ensayo, un vibrante homenaje a Nueva York. Sutil, agudo y nostálgico, es una mágica evocación de la ciudad y el retrato social de (...)

From a leading art instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, a complete survey of drawing as an art form covering its history, materials, and key techniques, alongside step-by-step demonstrations.Foundations of Drawing is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the (...)

Based on an extremely rare (albeit slightly incomplete) illustrated version of the Spanish Army's order of battle as it existed in the year 1800, this work cannot but form a most unusual addition to the collection of anyone interested in military uniforms (or, more specifically, the Revolutionary (...)