Yves Klein

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

Desde el oso del Paleolítico, al que se atribuían poderes mágicos, hasta nuestros osos de peluche, Pastoreau nos relata la historia de una relación pasional que se prolonga desde épocas remotas. Durante mucho tiempo, en Europa, el rey de los animales no fue el león, sino el oso, al que se admiraba y veneraba. Dejaron sus huellas en la mitología y el imaginario colectivo hasta bien entrada la Edad Media cristiana, pero muy pronto la Iglesia trató de borrarlas. Temían la fuerza brutal de la fiera, la fascinación que ejercía sobre reyes y cazadores y la creencia según la cual el oso...

Book and parallel exhibition is the first retrospective of the paintings by mid-career, Yishai Jusidman (b. Mexico, 1963). His work draws on seventeenth-century portraiture and modern monochrome; a naturalistic still lifes and action painting, a Renaissance technique of tempera and digital electrostatic printing. His artistic production combines visual richness with conceptual rigor and historical breadth. The exhibition includes selections from each of the shows produced since 1987 and will include about 70 pieces in a wide range of formats and scales, from collections in Mexico, Latin...

In Spagna, più che altrove, il XVII secolo è il secolo dei santi. Non solo per l'elevazione agli altari di quell'inedito manipolatore di uomini e donne le cui virtù furono riconosciute da Roma nel 1622, ma in senso più ampio, a causa della posizione di crocevia che la monarchia ispanica aveva tra il Mediterraneo e l'Atlantico. Specchio tra due mari, la penisola iberica, vedeva riflessa nella sua luna interna la fonte di esempi di vita cristiana della chiesa primitiva, giganteschi o distorti, secondo il taglio e la recinzione dello scrittore religioso, anche se quasi sempre riconoscibili,...