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The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci

Vitruvian Man is called a drawing made by the Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, based on the work of the Roman architect Marco Vitruvio Polión. Over a total area of ​​34.4 cm ...

12 works by Fernando Botero to understand its importance

Fernando Botero is a Colombian plastic artist who enjoys the highest international recognition. He is usually known as "the painter of the fat women", but far from what most believe, ...

Bosco's Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly Delights is the most emblematic and enigmatic work of Bosco, a Flemish painter. It is a triptych painted in oil on oak wood, made around 1490 or 1500. When...

Movie Roma by Alfonso Cuarón

Roma is a film by Alfonso Cuarón released in 2018. The film addresses in an intimate and extraordinary way the daily life of a middle-class family, in the Mexico of the 70s, a ...

Film Amélie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

The film Amélie, whose original name is Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (The fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain), is a comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and was shown for the first ...

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Nazca lines

A set of biomorphic, phytomorphic and geometric geoglyphs designed and executed on the Nazca and Palpa desert, department of Ica, ...

Mexican muralism: characteristics, authors and works

Mexican muralism is a pictorial movement that began in the 1920s, as part of the modernization policies of the State of Mexico after the 1910 revolution. It's about a...

Pyramids of Teotihuacán

Teotihuacán is a pre-Hispanic city located in Mexico, which is considered a World Heritage Site thanks to its fascinating pyramids. But it is also a mystery. The mystery begins ...

5 fundamental works of Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was one of the most famous Mexican painters, remembered especially for the brilliant career he developed in the Mexican mural movement, together with José ...

Pop art: characteristics, artists and key works

Pop art, known in Spanish as pop art, is a plastic movement that had its origin in the 1950s. He was born between Great Britain and the United States, but it was the latter that was ...

Impressionism: characteristics, works and most important artists

The Impressionist movement represents a turning point in the history of Western painting. Although it cannot be called avant-garde art, it can be said that impressionism ...

7 iconic works by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is considered the father of pop art, an artistic movement that emerged in the mid-twentieth century that incorporated the themes of mass culture into the repertoire of the arts and broke the aura of ...

11 memorable paintings by Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, known as Salvador Dalí (Spain 1904-1989), is one of the most important exponents of Surrealism. Loved by some and opposed by others, ...

13 essential works to understand Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poet, potter, playwright and set designer. He spent most of his adult life in Paris, where he befriended various artists. Picasso was ...

11 essential works of Armando Reverón

Armando Reverón is a Venezuelan painter, draftsman and sculptor born in 1889, whose legacy became so important that the MOMA dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him in 2007. He was ...

Leonardo da Vinci: 11 fundamental works

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, and military engineer, but his name remained forever linked to painting. Therefore, here 11 of the most important works of the ...

Capitães da Areia: analysis and meaning of Jorge Amado's book

Capitães da Areia It is a 1937 romance by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado. O livro portrays the life...

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Casa-grande & senzala, by Gilberto Freyre: abstract, about a publication, about or author

Casa-grande & senzala, by Gilberto Freyre: abstract, about a publication, about or author

The book of intellectual Gilberto Freyre is considered the classical major of Brazilian sociology...

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Symbolism: origin, literature and characteristics

Symbolism: origin, literature and characteristics

O symbolism was an artistic movement that occurred in Europe in the 19th century.A vertente inclu...

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