Arte

During the Renaissance, the great artists, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Rapheal, transformed the history of art, achieving an even closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste. From the art, ambiguous beings were born, half man, half woman; female breasts were planted on male busts and a young man's gaze peeped out beneath the eyelids of a Madonna. From his earliest youth, Michelangelo never ceased to suffer, and thereby to create. He attempted to reconcile the apparently conflicting forces that inhibited him: earthly passions and fear of God. Hence the edifice devoted to beauty, celestial and infernal alike, that Michelangelo raised to the glory of God. It has no equivalent nor descendants. His predecessors aspired to Heaven through faith alone; Miichelangelo sought to rise through the contemplative exaltation of beauty.

English language text. 186 numbered pages, including black and white photo plates.

The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive black and white illustrations. It is one of Edward Gorey's best-known books, and is the most notorious amongst his roughly half-dozen mock alphabets.\[2\] It has been described as a "sarcastic rebellion against a view of childhood that is sunny, idyllic, and instructive". The morbid humor of the book comes in part from the mundane ways in which children die, such as falling down the stairs or choking on a peach. Far from illustrating the dramatic and fantastical childhood nightmares, these scenarios instead poke fun at the banal paranoias that come as a part of parenting.

Cómo Reconocer El Arte Romano de Tarella Alde. Editorial Médica y Técnica, 1980.

Tercer volumen ya de nuestra Historia del Arte en cómic, y este estará dedicado al Renacimiento, ¡la cosa se pone seria! Aunque «seria» no es un adjetivo que les pegue a nuestros agentes de la historieta, que siguen haciendo de las suyas, acompañados en esta ocasión de cicerones de la categoría de Leonardo, Sofonisba Anguissola, la Gioconda, Miguel Ángel, Rafael, Durero, Tiziano o Garcilaso de la Vega… ¡Menudo equipo! Pasear por la Florencia de los Medici y asombrarnos con la cúpula de Brunelleschi, por la esplendorosa Roma del cinquecento y contemplar la Capilla Sixtina -¡en todo el esplendor que nos proporciona un tríptico desplegable!-, o perdernos ascendiendo La torre de Babel de Brueghel el Viejo… ¡Llamarlo síndrome de Stendhal es poco para como vas a quedarte tras leer este libro!

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