El señor de la seda

Al-Arbuli, un joven de Arboleas, una pequeña aldea en la parte más oriental del fascinante Reino de Granada en el siglo XV, inquieto y ávido por aprenderlo todo sobre los alimentos, decide abandonar su casa con la idea de poder entrar al servicio como cocinero en alguna de las familias más importantes de la ciudad de la Alhambra o quizá, con suerte, en la misma corte del todopoderoso sultán Yusuf III. Las personas con las que se encontrará y los acontecimientos que vivirá, llevarán a su protagonista a conocer el amor, el éxito y la traición; en un mundo y una sociedad medieval, en...

Luis Cruz Azaceta: No Exit is the first substantial overview of the work of the Cuban-American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta (born 1942). Azaceta's childhood memories in Cuba (where he remained until he was 18 years old) mix with his first professional experiences in New York City (where he studied at the School of Visual Arts and where he lived for three decades) and those of his period of professional maturity in New Orleans. Azaceta's brightly polychromatic painting explores "an aesthetics of constant escapes," as Iván de la Nuez put it. His imaginary, revealed in works that range between...

Rigorous and methodical in its conception, this anecdotic, entertaining, and illustrated tome presents for the first time a detailed look at the artistic career of this disciplined and talented Latin American painter and sculptor. Botero's followers will explore the history of his life, his personal beliefs, and the magic enclosed in the characteristic proportions of his work. Riguroso y metódico en su concepción este tomo anecdótico, divertido y ilustrado presenta por primera vez una vista detallada de la carrera artística del pintor y escultor mas disciplinada y talentosa de América...

With profound texts, through an agile presentation and complemented by more than four hundred full-color illustrations, Rosa Giorgi shows us paintings, frescoes, sculptures, engraved codices, and engravings populated by the most amazing heavenly and demonic figures, ranging from seraphs and cherubs, to the riders of the Apocalypse, demonic possessions and exorcisms, purgatory and paradise.

Como resultado directo de la conquista de la Península Ibérica por las legiones romanas, la romanización se inicia desde el primer momento, se acentúa durante el Imperio, o sea, desde el año 19 a. de J.C. en adelante, y se completa, por influjo del Cristianismo, en los siglos III y IV de nuestra Era.