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¿Y si se predicara la ciencia igual que se predica la religión? Así comienza una tertulia a la que asisten varios hombres juiciosos e instruidos. En «Los literatos en cuaresma» Tomás de Iriarte plantea una discusión, no sin buenas dosis de crítica y sarcasmo, sobre los temas centrales de la Ilustración: la secularización de la sociedad o la reforma de la cultura y la educación. Tomás de Iriarte (1750-1791) fue un escritor español vinculado a la Ilustración y al neoclasicismo. Fue sobrino del humanista Juan de Iriarte, al que sucedió como oficial traductor de la primera...

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...

Book and parallel exhibition is the first retrospective of the paintings by mid-career, Yishai Jusidman (b. Mexico, 1963). His work draws on seventeenth-century portraiture and modern monochrome; a naturalistic still lifes and action painting, a Renaissance technique of tempera and digital electrostatic printing. His artistic production combines visual richness with conceptual rigor and historical breadth. The exhibition includes selections from each of the shows produced since 1987 and will include about 70 pieces in a wide range of formats and scales, from collections in Mexico, Latin...

Throughout the history of art, drawing has always represented the most profound and true expression of artists' visions, the final frontier to prove the depth of their talent. This book is an exploration of several of Colombia's most representative artists' pencil work. In most cases, these sketches are the most basic yet crucial point of an artistic idea that is later completed in another medium—paint, marble, photography, or a computer. A lo largo de toda la historia del arte, el dibujo representa la expresión más profunda y verdadera del artista, la frontera final para probar la...