Los manuscritos iluminados son libros escritos a mano y decorados con ilustraciones de distintos colores y con aplicaciones de oro o plata. Estos eran considerados como objetos especiales y valiosos y se preparaban con ...

El Programa CHAT propone vincular disciplinas aparentemente desligadas mediante el descubrimiento de conceptos cientíicos en un contexto poco usual. Con esta infografía, te invitamos a participar de una visión integral de ...

Los retablos surgieron con el fin de contribuir al adoctrinamiento religioso de un pueblo. Es una expresión tanto arquitectónica como escultó rica que comunica didácticamente los pasajes de los Evangelios o de la vida de ...

Adriaen Collaert (c.1560-1618) and Cornelis I Galle (1576-1650) designed a series of twenty four engravings on the life of Saint Teresa de Avila (see Gallery 5). This series served as the basis for two series of paintings ...

Los contenidos incluyen: Los agentes individuales y los comportamientos. Los responsables sociales y el bienestar. El valor de la vida humana y la "decisión de Zelma". Keynes y los códigos morales en la economía. Enfoque ...

Huamanga stone is an opaque, ivory-colored stone that abounds in the area of Huamanga, Peru. Known also as Peruvian alabaster, it was carved since pre-Columbian times, as it is said to be so soft that it can be cut, when ...

Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) was a prodigious Flemish draftsman whose alluring Mannerist designs were engraved by the hundreds in Northern Europe. Once engraved, these drawings traveled throughout the Spanish empire, serving ...

In 1585, one of the members of the Sadeler family of printers and engravers published a set of twelve engravings by Adriaen Collaert after designs by Hans Bol. These engravings were introduced by a title page which described ...

Mexico City's elegant Palacio de Minería houses a remarkable series of portraits of the Twelve Sibyls of Antiquity. These portraits were painted by don Pedro Sandoval in the second half of the 18th century. Prophets of ...