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The impressionists were forever inspired by the sea, which Claude Monet considered “a wonderful teacher for landscape artists.” The movement’s penchant for plein air painting and its characteristic style, with delicate brushstrokes and incomparable color palettes, was perfectly suited to portrayals of the sea and its perpetual movement, from gently rippling waves to raging storms.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann Sr., his wife, Liliane Kaufmann, and their son, Edgar Kaufmann jr., Fallingwater is lauded for its architectural daring and drama. Here the Kaufmanns sought to live in harmony with the natural world. The rooms of the house reflect this ideal and remain suffused with a natural aesthetic that embraces stone and wood, handwork and craftsmanship. In the living room, the great stone floor flows riverlike toward the horizon of Wright–designed built-in sofas and large-paned casement windows, where views open to balconies, to forest, and to cascading falls. From here “the hatch” opens to the flowing stream below. Pools and the waters of Bear Run were beautiful and for swimming. Relaxed elegance was the order of the day. Delicacy, softness, tactility are everywhere in evidence.

Ensayo sobre la metafísica realista de la mano de Aristóteles y Tomás de Aquino, y su prolongación en diversos pensadores hasta la actualidad. La filosofía de Aristóteles, y la visión que tiene de él Tomás de Aquino, no es la que inspira hoy el lenguaje de los medios, el de los políticos o la publicidad. Tampoco Bach, Mozart o Beethoven son los que más suenan en las discotecas. Pero lo importante es ser referencia perenne, para que puedan encontrarla quienes deseen ir más allá (meta) de lo inmediato. Este libro aborda con rigor y de modo accesible los principales contenidos de la metafísica realista, conectando con la cultura humana desde Grecia hasta el mundo filosófico árabe, pasando por lo mejor de la filosofía cristiana.