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Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2014

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Happy Holidays We wish the Goodness and Beauty  fill your life in this Christmas  and throughout the new year 2024 Decoration with Art

The immortal Don Quixote, a timeless figure

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 The silhouettes of  Don Quixote  and his squire  Sancho Panza  are easily recognisable. We know exactly who they are when we see the image of a slender knight with a peculiar helmet atop a gaunt horse and a peasant on a donkey. The sad figure of the Manchegan nobleman has transcended time and space, influencing literature, music, visual arts, even cinema or Broadway musicals. Four centuries after the publication of the two parts of the novel, its iconic image still accompanies us today. Bust of Don Quixote. 39cm The illustrious nobleman Don Quixote of La Mancha  is the masterpiece of the writer  Miguel de Cervantes,  and by extension, of Spanish literature. This novel, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, tells the story of a nobleman, Alonso Quijano, who, driven by excessive reading of chivalry books, loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant under the name  Don Quixote . He convinces a neighboring peasant, Sancho Panza, to accompany him as his squire, and together t