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The Hispanic Society holds the most important collection of Hispanic art outside of our borders. With more than 18,000 works of art that spans from the Paleolithic Age to the 20th century, an extraordinary research library with more than 250,000 manuscripts and 35,000 rare books, which includes 250 incunables. There is no other institution in the world, even in Spain, that alone can offer such a complete vision of our history, art and culture.00Archaeological artifacts, Roman sculpture, ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, silverworks, medieval and Islamic works of art, masterworks from the...

The National Museum of Art contains a panorama of Mexican art from the 16th to the 20th centuries. 225 selected pieces from the collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, documents, and popular art are contained in the practical guide with information on the artists, themes, stylistic movements and critical thoughts over the 5 centuries that are represented. A section of brief biographies of the artists make this a very useful guide. Some of the artists include: Cristóbal de Villalpando, Mugel Cabrera, José María Velasco, Saturnino Herrán, Diego Rivera, José...

Provides Spanish definitions and sample sentences for two thousand English words, with a pronunciation key, labeled drawings, and a brief introduction to English verbs and plurals.

Bajo una apariencia caprichosa y paradójica, las páginas de crítica y estética de Oscar Wilde quizá sean lo más original y perdurable de toda su obra. No sólo nos ofrecen un ejemplo perfecto de lo que debió de ser el Wilde conversador sino que la mayoría de sus ideas, que tanto escandalizaron en su época, han cobrado una vigencia asombrosa con el paso del tiempo. La decadencia de la mentira (1889), el texto predilecto de Wilde, y sin duda el mejor de todos sus escritos de crítica estética, es una brillante diatriba contra el arte realista de su tiempo, que mediante el «culto...