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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.

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...

En los Estados de México, Morelos, Guerrero, Puebla y Oaxaca; y en la República de El Salvador, en las fiestas patronales de los pueblos nahuas, amuzgos, mixtecos, y mestizos, se representan danzas comedias de viejitos chistosos cazando a una fiera. En el libro se defiende la hipótesis de que todas las danzas comedias del jaguar y los viejitos cómicos son variantes con distinto nombre. Dan alegría a las fiestas patronales de los pueblos en su mayoría de origen nahua. Por orden de frecuencia, las danzas comedias del tigre (jaguar) más abundantes son: Tecuanes, tlacololeros, lobos,...

Transcripción completa de la documentación manuscrita del legado de Francisco Asenjo Barbieri sobre los Teatros de Madrid