Painting area and Photography

– Portrait in Spain, an identity hallmark.
– Still life or the inert dialogue.
– History of photography I: an art in the service of painting.
– History of photography II: the liberation of a genre.
– The unusual nineteenth century: from academic style to the abstraction.
– Pictorial dialogues.
– Velázquez and irony in the context of Baroque.

Plastic art area:

– A look at the history of print: from its origins to the present day.
– The print I: concept, types and impact.
– The print II: the great masters of the Renaissance.
– The print III: iconic rhetoric of Baroque.
– The print IV: Rembrandt and his time.
– The print V: the uses of print in the nineteenth century Goya and print.
– The print VI: new horizons of representation in contemporary art.
An introduction to the history of the stained glass window.
– Processional monstrance: small architectures for faith. An introduction to the history of miniature.

Iconographic area:

– Iconography mass: when the society creates images
– The symbolic world of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”of Walt Disney.
– The “vanitas”: history about brevety of time.
– Approach to Greco-roman mitology and its presence in art.
– From myth to tale.

Cinema area:

– Snow White reload
– Miscenally about Disney’s films.
– Aesthetics and symbolics curiosyties of Silly Symphonies.
– The experience about fantasy in cinema.
– La fantasía arquitéctonica en Harry Potter, El Señor de los Anillos y otros filmes.

Aesthetic area:

– Telluric allure of “French mountains” in Salamanca: an environment for a painting.
– The Romanticism legacy during 19th and 20th century.
– The problem about postmodernity in 21th century: art and no art.
– Dialectics between reason and sprit through the history.
– The aesthetic of landscape: a tribute to the mythology.
– Rethoric and aesthetic in Baroque era.

Theory of art and design area

– Art, craftsmanship and design. Semantic dichotomy in the dawns of creativity.
– The persistence of the shape: from artistic elite to mass art.
– An approach to design culture.
– Prerrafaelism, Ars&Craft and Modernism: from medieval to the vegetable.
– From Naturphilosophie to Naturalism: art of half century.

Music Area:

– Musicians from Castilla y León: chapelle masters, organists, organ builders, singers and ministrils.
– Rhythm in art: mathematics of the music and visuals arts
– Life music in Spanish cathedrals during Modern Age.
– Music in royal ceremonies in Austrias y Borbones period.
– Music of Spanish Golden Age.
– Hearing and sight delight in plays and other celebrations of modern times.

History area:

– Royal ceremonies.
– Cathedrals from Castilla y León.
– Jesuits in Castilla.
– Plastic arts and music’s usefulness in religious and secular ceremonies of
Modern Age.

Architecture area:

– Architectonic metaphysics of the temple. The meaning of its shapes over the time.
– History of ephemeral architecture and scenography: its development in Spanish institutions.
– Palace and urban edilicia over the time.
– Rhythm in architecture: the power of the façade.
– About architecture and architectonic elements: history reasons/technical advances.
– Architecture of power in Spain: an inherent function to art.