Corto Maltese "Cordoba"
If there is an epic character in the world of comics, Corto Maltese that are (Corto Maltese). Born by the hand and imagination of Hugo Pratt. The first successful appearance of this legendary hero happens 1967 with […]
Month: May 2009
Samuel Colman: the Hudson to the Guadalquivir
Year 1860. In full outbreak of the American Civil War, landscape painter, Natural Portland, Maine, and raised in New York in the first half of the nineteenth century, is conducting a tour of the picturesque Andalusia […]
The Paris Cordoba
Como ya dije hace una semana, en mi reciente periplo parisino me encontré de pronto y sopetón, como el que no quiere la cosa, con un estilo arquitectónico familiar para mí. Cerca de los Jardínes de Luxemburgo, en la Avenida […]
Rafael Garzon: a happy discovery
I remember Sacunda premiered in Calleja an interesting post about the photographer Rafael Garzón. Since then I have hanging in my head give the reply to the article, as it has always interested me figure this pioneering […]
'Cordoba' auctioned at Sotheby's
Not. This is not new beams auction, of ivory still hidden in private collections or capitals from Madinat al-Zahra. This is the next auction at Sotheby's London Chamber's work […]
The Córdoba imagined Vasily Polenov
In that consists Vasily Polenov (1844-1927), prominent Russian painter the horse between him nineteenth and twentieth acronym, It was sometime in Cordoba. However, invoking some idealized image of the city, rather should relate […]
Robert David Gauley. Fountain in Cordoba, 1895
A new chapter on nineteenth-century travelers. A new picture of that finisecular Córdoba. A virtually unknown painter, than we can follow in his footsteps but just through catalogs of exhibitions: Robert David Gauley. As we have […]
Chest of Santo Domingo de Silos Provincial Museum (Burgos).
Mohamed'm Zeiyan, Basin.
“He kept the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, and now it is saved in the Provincial Museum of Burgos, one ivory casket, knock cap, measuring 345 millimeters long, 200 wide and 190 High.
The jewel is very patched. Because she lost one of the side panels of the box and the upper and the sides of the lid, and will ivory tablerillos were replaced by sheets of gold and enamelled copper, by adding an armor edges, Copper also gold and enamel, to adjust and sustain ivory cloths.
Fist of the sword in the British Museum (London) 1025
This sword handle anonymous, has 125 millimeters long; two transverse moldings divide and is styled in all ataurique Linked stems and wavy, knurled, fine leaves and four petals of roses, with central button above […]
Another tray Martín Sánchez de la Cruz in the Lazaro Galdiano Foundation (Madrid)
Description cataloging Circular plate with small moldings, gallonadas and pearl, on the raised edge. Frieze at the edge that reaches the field of the part and is decorated with six cards in which are represented: fox on rabbit, dog […]