Focusing on cities and towns in South America the book investigates the different ways in which artists, map-makers , surveyors and military engineers represented a city in all its complexity. The author maintains that cities are both built structures and human communities and as a result their representations are rarely straightforward. Indeed one needs to regard these images in light of their particular purpose: administrative views contained topological accuracy; portrait views emphasized the relationship between a certain individual to the city in which she lived; other views drew attention to the human qualities believed to render an individual community unique. Kagan examines the interaction of European and native cartographic traditions as depicted in images of New and Old World cities and towns.

Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793

Arts & Photography

Marías, Fernando

Kagan, Professor Richard

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

The authoritative, illustrated life and work of El Greco, one of the world’s most influential and inimitable creative spirits.
Domenikos Theotokópoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal painters of the Spanish golden age. This magnificent volume features superb new reproductions of his most famous works, some of which have been cleaned and restored, revealing unknown facets of his art.
Born in Crete in 1541 under Venetian rule, raised in the iconographic traditions of Byzantine art, and acquainted with both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic practice, El Greco journeyed to Venice and Rome in the late Renaissance, before finding patronage in Spain at the court of Philip II. He was a painter not only of religious subjects but also of idiosyncratic portraits executed in his own dramatic and expressionistic style.
He spent approximately half his life in Toledo, a city with which his name has become indelibly linked, although he was never fully accepted and was known there as a disputatious outsider. All this and more is detailed in this thorough, illustrated book. Many of El Greco’s most famous works are included: View of Toledo, The Adoration of the Shepherds, The Gentleman with His Hand on His Chest, Christ on the Cross Adored by Donors, as well as many others. 215 color illustrations

El Greco: Life and Work-A New History

Thames&Hudson

El Greco, whose real name was Domenikos Theotocopoulus, was born in Crete, trained in High Renaissance Venice and Rome, and moved to Toledo in 1577. He saw himself as the epitome of the artist as courtier and philosopher, a contrast to the craftsman who emphasised the medieval aspects the city, including 'El Espolio' in the cathedral and 'Burial of the Count of Orgaz' in Santo Tome. His landscape paintings of the city are unparalled - and even his monumental rendering of Laocoon refers to his adopted city which, in legend, was founded by the Trojans. This stunningly illustrated title is a highly informative study of El Greco's paintings of the landscape and monuments of the city of Toledo.

El Greco in Toledo: National Monuments of Spain

Scala Publishers

«Te incineraron con una novela mía entre las manos. Por eso escribo este libro. Hasta ese momento jamás pensé que contaría nuestra historia. Había logrado asumir el largo camino de tu final, que a veces, no sé si atreverme a decirlo, tanto deseaba que llegara, y describir aquel calvario que por encima de todo fue tuyo me habría parecido una herejía. Pero entonces supe que te incineraron con la novela entre las manos y ahí, sin retorno ni piedad, nació este libro. Yo rememorando y tú muerta. Jamás podríamos habernos figurado el día del primer abrazo que desembocaríamos tanto después en este diálogo.» Una historia real de amor, muerte y desarraigo iniciada en el Madrid de los años ochenta y concluida hoy. Autobiográfica, especulativa, alcohólica, espectral. Nadie es quien soñó que sería.

Arde este libro

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Editorial Alrevés S.L.

El greco

Alianza Editorial

La mujer de las alas grises

Booket

La isla del padre

Contemporary

La batalla de Matxitxako (Spanish Edition)

ANAYA INFANTIL Y JUVENIL

Cielo abajo (Espacio abierto / Open Space) (Spanish Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

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