El Replicador

Esta obra fue dedicada por Alberti a Brunelleschi. En ella se evidencia el espíritu netamente renacentista del autor, pues la variedad de sus preocupaciones intelectuales (matemáticas, filosofía literatura, arquitectura...) se manifiestan en este clásico tratado de arte. En él expresó un nuevo ideal artístico que se difundió rápidamente por Europa.

Behind Frida Kahlo’s portraits, lies the story of both her life and work. It is precisely this combination that draws the reader in. Frida’s work is a record of her life, and rarely can we learn so much about an artist from what she records inside the picture frame. Frida Kahlo truly is Mexico’s gift to the history of art. She was just eighteen years old when a terrible bus accident changed her life forever, leaving her handicapped and burdened with constant physical pain. But her explosive character, raw determination and hard work helped to shape her artistic talent. And although he...

La crónica de la vida íntima y el ensayo literario se funden aquí con la reflexión sobre un puñado de películas. Se trata de un conjunto de textos que, abarcando diez años de cine (de 1995 a 2005), muestran cómo las historias de celuloide penetran en nuestra forma de ver el mundo. Cine, pues, como biografía paralela de uno mismo; ensayos como excusa para verse fílmico, para escarbar en la memoria, dichosa o dolorosamente, a partir de obras tan diversas como "Balas sobre Broadway", "Pleasantville", "El fin del romance", "Magnolia", "El mismo amor, la misma lluvia", "Family Man",...

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.