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Goya: el tres de mayo de 1808
El 3 de mayo de 1808 es uno de los más grandiosos cuadros de tema bélico de todos los tiempos, y por su implicación política, uno de los más polémicos. Pero ¿cuál fue la verdadera intención de Goya al cumplir el encargo del Consejo de Regencia poco después de la Restauración en 1814? En este fascinante libro, Hugh Thomas sitúa el cuadro en el contexto de la vida y la obra del artista y en el de la historia española, investiga las conexiones de Goya con la Corte, de la que era pintor oficial, sus relaciones con los ministros de un Despotismo benevolente y su amistad con los pocos representantes de la Ilustración en España antes de la invasión napoleónica.
150 pages, Paperback
Published October 14, 2008
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Hugh Thomas
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Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, was a British historian and Hispanist.
Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens' College, Cambridge. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 1961 book The Spanish Civil War won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was published in 1977. Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971) is a book of over 1,500 pages tracing the history of Cuba from Spanish colonial rule until the Cuban Revolution. Thomas spent 10 years researching the contents of this book.
Thomas was married to the former Vanessa Jebb, daughter of the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General Gladwyn Jebb.
From 1966 to 1975 Thomas was Professor of History at the University of Reading. He was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, as an ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, of Notting Hill in Greater London in letters patent dated 16 June 1981. He has written pro-European political works, as well as histories. He is also the author of three novels.
Thomas's The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 "begins with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, before Columbus's voyage to the New World, and ends with the last gasp of the slave trade, long since made illegal elsewhere, in Cuba and Brazil, twenty-five years after the American Emancipation Proclamation," according to the summary on the book jacket.
Thomas should not be confused with two other historical writers: W. Hugh Thomas writes about Nazi Germany and Hugh M. Thomas is an American who writes on English history.
Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, was a British historian and Hispanist.
Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens' College, Cambridge. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 1961 book The Spanish Civil War won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was published in 1977. Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971) is a book of over 1,500 pages tracing the history of Cuba from Spanish colonial rule until the Cuban Revolution. Thomas spent 10 years researching the contents of this book.
Thomas was married to the former Vanessa Jebb, daughter of the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General Gladwyn Jebb.
From 1966 to 1975 Thomas was Professor of History at the University of Reading. He was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, as an ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, of Notting Hill in Greater London in letters patent dated 16 June 1981. He has written pro-European political works, as well as histories. He is also the author of three novels.
Thomas's The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 "begins with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, before Columbus's voyage to the New World, and ends with the last gasp of the slave trade, long since made illegal elsewhere, in Cuba and Brazil, twenty-five years after the American Emancipation Proclamation," according to the summary on the book jacket.
Thomas should not be confused with two other historical writers: W. Hugh Thomas writes about Nazi Germany and Hugh M. Thomas is an American who writes on English history.
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December 9, 2024
Un libro bastante completo de la guerra civil española y del trabajo del pintor Francisco de Goya. Apreció el hecho de que traiga un anexo desplegable del tablero Dos de Mayo, ya que facilita bastante la comprensión del análisis al poder admirar la obra al mismo tiempo. La estructura es concisa y clara, encontré que el análisis de la obra estaba bastante completo tocando los aspectos formales y las influencias políticas que rodean la obra. Con respecto a la escritura es un texto que se lee bastante bien, tiene un buen ritmo y se mantiene accesible a pesar del vocabulario técnico. En resumen es un buen libro si busca introduction con respecto a la guerra de independencia de España y el impacto que tuvo en el trabajo de Goya.
May 18, 2024
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