Humanities Archives

19/02/2016

David García Cueto, Arts History professor at the University of Granada, affirms that these two marble heads are not a representation of a Christian soul’s personification enjoying the pleasures of… Seguir Leyendo A researcher from the University of Granada reveals that Bernini’s ‘Animas’, two of his most famous sculptures, were originally meant to be mythological (not religious) sculptures

27/01/2014

Following years of research, a lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of Granada, Spain, has successfully attributed to Raphael a painting entitled “Small Madonna of Foligno’, which reached Cordoba… Seguir Leyendo A previously unknown painting, belonging to a private collector, is attributed to Renaissance artist Raphael

03/12/2009

The study –titled Entre la estupidez y el honor: La violencia en el fondo del vaso de Francisco Ayala (Between Foolishness and Honour: Violence in Ayala’s Bottom of the Glass)-… Seguir Leyendo Francisco Ayala’s literature shows that violence against women cuts across all classes, a study of the University of Granada says

16/10/2007

Museums command respect from most people, and although the majority of the society has a “positive” opinion of museums, this respect depends on personal experience and how museums have been… Seguir Leyendo UGR researcher carries out the first study in Spain on museum visitors

13/07/2006

From the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD, Baetica was one of the Imperial Roman provinces. This geographical area was famous for the production of metals, oil and… Seguir Leyendo In Roman times, the inhabitants of the Vega de Granada traded more with western Andalusia than with eastern Andalusia (Spain)

10/07/2006

The fundamental areas of this research, which has been published by the Editorial Universidad de Granada with the title “El canto del lenguaje. Representación de los prosodemas en la escritura… Seguir Leyendo The University of Granada publishes a book about the representation of prosodemes in alphabetic writing

21/06/2006

The author, Ricardo Marín Viadel, a lecturer at the department of Didactics of Musical, Visual and Corporal Expression of the Universidad de Granada, says that this book is a photography… Seguir Leyendo The UGR has published, in collaboration with the University of Seville, a book about research in Art Education

31/05/2006

The originality of “Life as a parable”, an autobiographical novel by Jewish writer Pinhas Sadeh, is the secret of this key work of contemporary Hebrew literature according to a study… Seguir Leyendo A study of the UGR reveals keys to interpretate “Life as a parable” by Pinhas Sadeh, recently published in Spanish

17/05/2006

“Alejo Carpentier and the Classical World”, a work by professor Inmaculada López Calahorro, is the new volume published by UGR Press in the collection Library of Humanities / Classical Studies,… Seguir Leyendo The Universidad de Granada publishes a book on Alejo Carpentier and the Classical World

04/05/2006

Which was the state of the relationships between Christianity and paganism in the late antiquity? How were these tensions reflected in society? Alberto Quiroga, researcher of the department of Greek… Seguir Leyendo A thesis of the UGR reveals that conflicts between religion and paganism in the Classical world were common in cultural elites

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