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To know the work of art in its historical context we can understand and explain its meaning, the symbols involved, the author's intention and the reasons that allowed its creation. In this sense, the book seeks to recognize the various manifestations of art in its historical perspective. The book comprises ten original works, that try to discern the artistic creations since Pre-Hispanic times, in the Viceroyalty, up to the current period, and where visual arts, drama and music are also involved. "This book emerges as a need to spread the texts on art carried out by professors and students of...

Un apasionante viaje a través del tiempo, desde el Mayrit musulmán hasta la modernidad del siglo XXI, nos desvela el alma de la ciudad de Madrid, describe las transformaciones del espacio urbano y analiza los misterios que se ocultan tras la génesis de algunos de sus edificios más representativos. La Historia secreta de Madrid es una suerte de "guía de autor", un itinerario histórico que nos ofrece las claves para entender este espacio que comienza a definirse con murallas y arrabales medievales de trazado irregular, atraviesa los siglos cargado de conventos, hospitales, mercados y...

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

A pesar de su crisis, sería interesante rediscutir sus postulados para extraer conceptos aplicables hoy, fundamentalmente a la concepción de la ciudad como un todo. Claro que todos estos conceptos, el de la vivienda mínima y la ciudad moderna, fundantes del denominado movimiento moderno en arquitectura, que se basaban en una drástica ruptura con la historia, es decir con el atraso, se materializaban a través de una nueva concepción.