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Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of the undisputed masters of 19th-century Spanish painting. He is also often called "The first of the Moderns" because of his bold technique and his belief that the personal vision of the artist is more important than the tradition. With illustrations and the text covering the main incidents of his life, this book on Spanish painter Goya will entice all art lovers.

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.

This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those...

Diego Velázquez fue un artista individualista del periodo barroco contemporáneo. A la edad de veinticuatro años, Velázquez hizo su primer viaje a Madrid con su maestro, Francisco Pacheco. Rápidamente logró la certificación como maestro de pintura. El rey Felipe IV se dio cuenta de su genio y lo nombró pintor de la corte en 1627. Poco después, el artista se hizo amigo de Rubens, en Madrid. Desarrolló un enfoque más realista en el arte religioso, con figuras que son retratos más naturales, en lugar de representar un estilo idealizado. El uso del claroscuro recuerda la obra de...