Elegía

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...

The eighteenth century is one of the paradigms for studying identity crisis. It is from this period that the foundations of modernity and the definition of the values of contemporary societies are based. In this process of change, the debate on the intellectual capacity of females and their new role in the civilization of manners became a central issue that would define the whole time It not only helped to review the patterns of life and women's experiences, but also to rethink the role of man in the modern project of Enlightenment. This book explores the construction of these identities in...

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.

Roland Schimmelpfennig, vielfach ausgezeichnet und in Deutschland wie international einer der meistgespielten deutschsprachigen Dramatiker, gibt in "Ja und Nein" erstmals ausführlich Auskunft über sein künstlerisches Selbstverständnis und darüber, was Theater ist und sein soll: einfach, verdichtend, ein Kunstwerk, ein Spiel, erzählend, ein Raum für Dialog, ein Gesprächsangebot. Es ist steter Versuch, die Welt spielerisch zu durchmessen. "Ja und Nein" basiert auf drei im Rahmen der 2. Poetikdozentur für Dramatik an der Universität des Saarlandes im Winter 2012/13 in Saarbrücken...