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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
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El valor del arte. historia de las primeras galerías de arte de colombia (1948-1957) [PDF]
Este trabajo trata sobre el reconocimiento de los artistasplásticos como parte activa de la comunidad, individuosestrechamente vinculados a la profesionalización de losgestores culturales modernos, los comerciantes de arte ylos organizadores de ...
Serna, Julián Camilo
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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The increase in temperatures in the north of the Valencia region: value and nature (1950-2016)
The objective of this study is to try and get a better understanding of the magnitude of the effects of global warming in the Valencia region of Spain. The magnitude of this is the basic scientific theme that lies at the heart of the great environmental ...
José Quereda Sala +2 more
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En el presente artículo se analiza la evolución de la imagen de entornos urbanos y patrimoniales recreados a modo de escenario en el ámbito del videojuego, desde las primeras y limitadas representaciones en etapas tempranas del medio, hasta el ...
David Morales Vallejo
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ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Exposición de los trabajos presentados en el Área de Historia del Arte.
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Chosen by God: Providential Suffering and Divine Writing in the Morisco Diaspora
ABSTRACT This essay reconsiders the anonymous sonnet ‘Y Dios, que a los suyos padeciendo mira’ preserved in the Prologue of MS 11/9394 S‐2 (Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia), a Morisco codex produced near Tunis between 1630 and 1650. As a key yet subtle rhetorical hinge in the text's Prologue, the sonnet establishes MS 11/9394 S‐2 within ...
Andrea Pauw
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The Gift of Textiles as a Gesture of Munificence in Late Medieval Castile: Literary Testimonies
Generosity stands out as a presumed royal and noble virtue, and that is why giving presents has been a frequent habit throughout history. In this sense, 15th century literature –especially chronicles, because of its detailed descriptions– is full of ...
Sila Oreja Andrés
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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