Corazón y realidad

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

La pintura al aire libre se distingue de las demás por un requisito fundamental: la rapidez que exige terminar la obra en una sola jornada, incluso en unas pocas horas. Este afán por trabajar deprisa determina las características formales de estas obras, condicionadas por la espontaneidad e inmediatez, que piden pinceladas muy variadas, vigorosas y personales. Pintar al aire libre es la mejor escuela para aprender a observar y adquirir mayor soltura con el pincel; el límite de tiempo que impone el boceto obliga a sintetizar, a plasmar con pocas pinceladas los rasgos fundamentales del...

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.

En 1920 la empresa alimentaria Nestlé editó el denominado Album Timbres, diseñado para coleccionar 120 series de 12 cromos sobre una gran variedad de asuntos, en su mayor parte de carácter científico y cultural. El álbum conformaba una atractiva enciclopedia capaz de interesar a niños y padres. Completarlo se convirtió en una actividad que implicaba a toda la familia. Para los álbumes sucesivos, Nestlé consiguió la colaboración de reconocidos expertos que se encargaron de escribir textos divulgativos de gran rigor y calidad, para los que los cromos servían de ilustración. Se...