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Continue Reading βDon Quixote is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The book, published in two parts (1605 and 1615) is considered to be the ...
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Continue Reading βThis engrossing book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture as well as the different meanings that artists and ...
Continue Reading βThis book documents the formulation of a definitive iconographic form for one of the most important doctrines of the Catholic Church. From the ...
Continue Reading βOver the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and ...
Continue Reading ββWhen the young Swiss cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt was hoping to join the faculty at the newly founded Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich ...
Continue Reading βIn 16th- and 17th-century Spain, sculptors and painters combined their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of ...
Continue Reading βAs the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, ...
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