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The book you have in your hands has its distant ancestor in an International Symposium held at the University of Salamanca in September 2011 (2nd-4th) and entitled «Continental Celtic Word Formation. The Onomastic Data». The idea for this gathering arose from a series of conversations between Juan Luis García Alonso, Patrick Sims-Williams and Alexander Falileyev in Aberystwyth in March 2010. This book is undoubtedly indebted to this previous event (belonging in a series that we might call our «Ptolemy Workshops», held in Aberystwyth in 1999 (Ptolemy: Towards a linguistic atlas of the...

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

El álbum de dibujos y grabados de joyas titulado como Bijoux anciens se encuentra entre los fondos Rari de laBiblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte de Roma (BiASA). Es un único volumen, aparentemente inédito, en el que se compilan dos manuscritos donde se recogen trescientos cuarenta y cinco diseños de joyas en papel de distintas dimensiones y tipologías. Las alhajas representadas son de ámbito femenino y tienen naturaleza civil. Fueron dibujadas entre finales del siglo XVII y comienzos del XIX, siendo en su inmensa mayoría ejemplares del siglo XVIII. En esta publicación se...

El autor analiza una selección de obras pictóricas, escultóricas, arquitectónicas y musicales para mostrar la vinculación de sus mensajes crípticos con los arcanos de la tradición esotérica.