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This book examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing how colonial artists used such designs to create all manner of artworks and, in the process, forged new frameworks for artistic creativity. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish artist’s designs were routinely sent from Europe to the Spanish Americas, where artists used them to make all manner of objects. Rubens in Repeat is the first comprehensive study of this transatlantic phenomenon, despite broad recognition that it was one of the most important forces to ...
Una selección de ponencias del IV Congreso Internacional del CIAL, que tiene como objetivo exponer y dar a conocer las últimas y más sólidas investigaciones en el campo del análisis y la interpretación de las redes comerciales y culturales de Europa con América, desde la época colonial hasta las perspectivas de futuro, así como atender las propuestas de nuevas líneas de trabajo, y así fomentar la cooperación entre diversos investigadores y grupos establecidos en España y otros países.
Architectural ceramics was always good business, and it remains so today. It was a question of earning money through an artistic object; cobalt blue coloured money. This study, carried out from the perspective of the history of art, interprets the development of the ceramic tile commerce in the province of Castellón during the 19th Century, in a period before and immediately after the ceramic factories infrastructures enabled a greater geographic sales range, particularly the shaken American market
The central idea of this work deals with the historical intersection between war and urban problems from a multidiscipline perspective, combining history, historic geography, and artistic and cultural interpretations. This book compiles the studies presented in the II International Congress about New Spain and Antilles, organised by the Centro de Investigaciones de América Latina (CIAL) of Universitat Jaume I, October 2000.
As a result of external globalisation processes, and of internal social, economic and political stabilisation processes, Nicaragua has identified tourism as one of the main sources of income in the 21st Century. However, this situation should be fully taken advantage of in order to establish a sustainable regional development aimed at overcoming the country¿s weaknesses. The book stems from this idea, as it analyses the potential of Nicaraguan tourism by applying an integrated tourist development approach
La monarquía hispana se convierte en una monarquía sacra a través de un solemne pacto entre Dios y sus reyes: el primero legitima a los segundos, garantizándoles la gloria y la grandeza, y los segundos asumen la defensa de Dios y de su Iglesia. La creación de los Estados modernos va pareja a un amplio debate intelectual en el que los teóricos del pensamiento político reflexionan sobre el papel que debe desarrollar el monarca en el gobierno de su reino