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El secreto de los flamencos
2002
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A principios del Renacimiento los maestros florentinos dominan el secreto matemático de la perspectiva, y los flamencos el misterio alquímico de los pigmentos. No obstante, una guerra abierta entre ambas escuelas mantiene al mundo sin el pintor perfecto, aquel que domine lo mejor de ambas escuelas. Dos hechos desencadenarán los trágicos acontecimientos de esta historia: por un lado, el joven Pietro de la Chiesa, discípulo del gran maestro Monterga, aparece desnudo y degollado en un bosque de Florencia; por otro, una dama portuguesa, misteriosa y extremadamente bella, solicita los servicios de los hermanos Van Mander para ser retratada en un plazo de tiempo imposibel. Pero aún existe un tercer enigma, por el que cualquier pintor ambicioso cometería hasta las más atroces acciones, y que revela la composición del color en estado puro, del cual hablaba Aristóteles; éste está oculto en una clave numérica entre las líneas de un texto de san Agustín.
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Federico Andahazi
Federico Andahazi
Author · 14 books

Federico Andahazi is the son of Bela Andahazi, Hungarian poet and psychoanalyst, and Juana Merlín. During his adolescence, he began to read the classical Argentine and universal authors. He used to escape from school, that reflected the oppressive military dictatorship ruler, to meet with friends in bookstores and bars on Corrientes Avenue, emblematic place of Buenos Aires culture. It was at this time when he began writing his first stories. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires); he practiced the psychoanalysis a few years, while he was working on his short stories. In 2008, Andahazi published his first book of nonfiction, Pecar como Dios manda, Sexual History of Argentines. The essay runs in an hypothesis through all his work: you cannot understand the history of a country if you don’t know the history of sex that gestured it. With a prose that does not forget the novelist, the author conducted this first volume in an exhaustive investigation that starts from the original cultures and reaches the May Revolution. Federico Andahazi currently is working on the following volumes of the sexual history of the Argentines and in various fiction projects. His work has the recognition of the critical all over the world. His books are the subject of many reviews and studies.

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