Los descubrimientos de Ricardo

This publication tours the Museo de Arte de Ponce's collection of highly regarded Spanish painting and sculpture. The museum, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, celebrates the richness of Western art from the dawn of the Renaissance through to the end of the 19th century.

La Semana Santa de Sevilla levanta pasiones y también oculta un sinfín de hechos secretos, misteriosos, situados entre la leyenda y la realidad, que el investigador José Manuel García Bautista se ha afanado en resolver y documentar durante años. Desde anécdotas históricas curiosas hasta hechos inexplicables, todo tiene cabida en una obra que pretende bucear en los sucesos más llamativos y aspectos más desconocidos de la semana grande de la capital andaluza. El auténtico origen del Vía Crucis, tradiciones sepultadas, leyendas que tienen como protagonistas a las imágenes más...

This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from...

This sociophonetic study investigates the language of Andalusian politicians in the Spanish government between 1923 and 2011. Thanks to a quantitative analysis that reveals processes of convergence and divergence between Andalusian and central-peninsular Spanish throughout the century, it formulates unprecedented conclusions on the behavior of the Andalusian variety outside of its borders in educated speakers and formal communication contexts.