Dibujo y conocimiento

This empirical study investigates the existence of a hypothetical regional standard for Spanish in Catalonia based on a corpus made up of transcripts of some 70 hours of recorded interview material. The determining factors in the development of linguistic norms are analyzed in terms of the frequency of usage and the formal and informal acceptability of some 80 linguistic phenomena. The qualitative and quantitative analyses are supplemented by a study of the metalinguistic information and the linguistic attitudes identifiable in the interviews.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

Diego Velázquez (Séville, 1599 – Madrid, 1660) Diego Velázquez était un artiste anticonformiste de l'ère baroque. A l'âge de vingt-quatre ans, Velázquez fit son premier voyage à Madrid avec son professeur, Francisco Pacheco, rencontré à Séville. Rapidement, il se qualifia comme maître peintre. Le roi Philippe IV remarqua son génie et le nomma peintre de cour en 1627. Peu après, l'artiste se lia d'amitié avec Rubens à Madrid. Il développa une approche plus réaliste de l'art religieux, où les personnages sont représentés de façon naturaliste et non pas idéalisée. Son...

"Este libro está pensado para aquellos que deseen iniciarse y progresar en el dibujo artístico, con un método pedagógico que invita a la práctica desde el primer momento." --P. [4] of cover.