Naturaleza y ambiente, dos categorías que se enfrentan.

The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo da Vinci was in the service of Ludovico Sforza. He continued the work during the last 25 years of the artist's life. The works were subsequently published in the collection and based on Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini. After Leonardo's death, those notebooks passed into the hands of his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, and he published them later. It was a task of overwhelming difficulty due to its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing.

La pintura impresionista, trivializada a veces tras un siglo de exito, fue en otro tiempo una revelacion deslumbrante. Para recobrar aquel momento, aquella vision original, hay que acudir a las reacciones de la critica de la epoca.Los primeros defensores de Manet y Degas, Monet y Pisarro, se acercaron a sus obras desde un credo naturalista, pero apreciaron ya en ellas un giro subjetivo: el pintor impresionista no queria plasmar la naturaleza misma, sino una sensacion personal ante la naturaleza. Mediada la decada de 1870, se formaria en la critica de arte un modelo oculista, que pretendia...

A rich man had a garden in which he had planted pear trees sprung from seeds taken from Eden. If eaten, these pears were said to have rejuvenating properties. Since he never had the opportunity to sample his pears -- because the fruit was always stolen from the bough -- he charged his children with finding the thief. But only his youngest will undertake the task and find the enchanted dove.

El libro del humor negro, lo peor de la humanidad. Asesinatos, Historias Sadicas, Violaciones, etc... By @tiostalin