Elliot y el secreto de los Lamphard

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.

Shortly after Mauricio Goméz switched careers from journalism to painting, a painful condition developed in his right arm and kept him from working. As a result, he began experimenting with new techniques and materials—collage, pigments, and rubber—that he could manipulate using his left hand. Through an exemplary selection of his most recent work, this book presents Mauricio Gómez's new style, which reveals him to be a fighter for whom art is the reason to live. Poco después de que Mauricio Goméz cambió de una carrera periodística a una de arte, una dolorosa afección en su brazo...

Se trata de uno de los archivos de la Universidad de Sevilla más antiguos que se conservan hasta hoy: Conjuntamente con la base de datos que acompaña a la publicación, constituye un magnífico complemento para conocer la vida de la secular Facultad de Ciencias y de la actual Facultad de Química.