Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Duchess of Alba, 1797. The Hispanic Museum and Library, New York City A universal saying declares with wisdom: “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”. However, what is the price of love? I was overwhelmed by this question during our group visit to […]
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Carlo Cignani, Charity, ca. 1680 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City What is love? Is it a feeling? A physiological reaction? What is love? This question has puzzled poets, philosophers, and artists for centuries. I was overwhelmed by this question while walking through the streets of Manhattan. Nevertheless, I found the answer at the European
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For this comparative essay, I chose Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 and Jan Vermeer’s The Art of Painting (c. 1666-1668). Firstly, Vermeer’s painting is meticulous. The artwork presents an artist working in his studio. This piece has some household elements, such as a map of the Netherlands on the
Sandro Botticelli, Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1500. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. At the Renaissance Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, there is a masterpiece that caught my attention when I visited on September 30th. This marvelous feat was a Madonna painted by the prince of artists, Sandro
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Introducción El presente trabajo de investigación ofrece una reflexión bibliográfica sobre las principales intervenciones de Joseph Ratzinger sobre el tema de la relación entre fe y razón, tanto en su labor teológica como en su posterior ejercicio del ministerio petrino. Desde las primeras clases del seminario Rationes seminales nei primi autori cristiani, Ratzinger ha sido
Introducción El siglo XX fue una época de cambios significativos en las artes, la arquitectura y en lo interno de la Iglesia Católica. El Concilio Vaticano II, que fue el 21º concilio ecuménico de la historia de la Iglesia, será recordado como el acontecimiento más importante del siglo pasado para los católicos. Sin embargo, como
This painting “Homage to the Square Yellow Echo” really caught my attention because of its simplicity “like saying: Yes, this is also good art”, but at the same time its capacity of bringing up messages both internal and external. The Josef Albers’ paintings that are regarded «as one of the most iconic series of twentieth-century
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By Rodrigo Fernandez – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17649932 La Ruta de su Evasión es una novela de la escritora costarricense Yolanda Oreamuno. Fue publicada en 1949 y es considerada una de las mejores novelas de la autora, con un estilo vanguardista que rompió con el costumbrismo que había imperado en la literatura costarricense.
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Introduction A strong culture must be built upon solid principles, clear ideals, and ambitious horizons. A nation’s history plays a crucial role in acquiring these elements. Once a country has this combination of history and ideals, inevitably, “symbols” that define, embody, and strengthen those ideals appear. Those symbols could be people, stories, or figures that
The Model of Ballgame with Spectators placed in the ancient Mexican and Mesoamerican culture section at the Yale University Art Gallery is a sculpture piece created in Mexico, West Mexico, Nayarit, between 100 B.C. to A.D. 250; it was made of ceramic with traces of pigment. The person who molded it is unknown, but it
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