Los Misterios del Gran Arcano

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...

This collection of essays discusses the linguistic categorization of semantic aspects in Spanish and their interrelations with lexicology, morphology, and syntax. From a number of different perspectives, the essays study phenomena such as lexicalization, grammaticalization, lexical and grammatical classes, compositionality, argument structure, lexical aspects, and the categories of language and reality.

Una retrospectiva inédita de los grabados más bellos y los cuadros más destacados de Gustave Doré, elegidos entre su obra, constituida por más de 10 000 ilustraciones. Gustave Doré es un artista completo: dibujante, grabador, pintor y escultor. Su genio en la ilustración literaria le valió haber pasado al inconsciente colectivo, haber influido en el cine, la animación, el cómic y la publicidad. Uno de los dibujantes con mayor talento, y de los más prolíficos del siglo xix, Doré abarcó todos los temas: desde la caricatura de los hombres de su época hasta el reportaje de guerra,...