On May 14, 2022, Christie's in New York auctioned off this iconic piece as part of Christie's Spring Marquee Week, which was acquired by an anonymous buyer for the sum of $12,412,500. The selling house estimated that they could raise between 5/7,000,000 dollars, but the work far exceeded the figure thought.

What happened to this specimen for it to reach the record for a photograph? Sonia Decker, an expert in the art market, gives us her reflections.

"On the 14th of last afternoon - announced the Diario de Madrid of 1792 - at one of the doors to enter the stalls of the Plaza de los Toros, a bag for tobacco, made of a sea lion, with an embroidered lining, was lost. of silver, and several papers inside, and among them some receipts and an account, all of consideration; whoever found it will deliver it to the Hon. Mrs. Widowed Countess of Puñonrostro, who lives on the wide street of S. Bernardo next to El Salvador.”

Five years earlier, but on Calle de Atocha, Joseph Aguerre, (...).

It was around 1819 when the church of San Juan Bautista, in Buenos Aires, received the donation of this remarkable tapestry. According to tradition, the donor was a prominent member of the Buenos Aires clergy, who had bought it at a public auction, obtained from a Spanish frigate by an insurgent corsair. In those years it was common to display war trophies in churches.

The work, inspired by the painting by Rubens, is part of a series of twenty-nine tapestries woven in Brussels between 1699 and 1702. Follow Astrid Maulhardt's account and discover its history and where it is today.

Among the most famous sabers in the world, the katana has a place of privilege. Conceived around the 8th century AD. C., originally it was straight and with a single edge, but already in the middle of 1100 it is known that it reached its current identity, with a barely curved and double-edged blade.

In the history of Japan, katanas fulfilled their noble function wielded by samurai warriors. Over the centuries, the most experienced forgers coined knowledge to achieve a type of steel that made the katana a fearsome weapon due to the resistance and sharpness of its blade. In that rich history, masters have stood out who today are part of its (...).

Teresa Fuster. Editorial Antigua. Buenos Aires. 2022.

Quarto (23 x 15.8 cm), 152 pp. Paperback publisher binding.

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Manuel Luis Martí. 

Prosa Amerian Editores. Buenos Aires. 2022.

Quarto (24 x 17.2 cm), 342 pp. Paperback publisher binding.

The work thoroughly analyzes the history of the institution, its seats, illustrious academics, honorary and corresponding members, and the biographies of the full and emeritus members.

In addition, it provides a historical essay on the evolution of medicine over these two hundred years (...).