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De Burgos, Rafael Frühbeck
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
De Burgos, Rafael Frühbeck. See Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael .
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Ricardo of Burgos
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Ricardo of Burgos ( fl. c. 1180–1226). Probably an English master-mason. He designed and built the Monastery of Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Spain, and may have settled in Castile through his connections with...
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Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafael ( b Burgos, 1933). Sp. conductor. Prin. cond. Bilbao orch. 1958–62; Madrid Nat. Orch. 1962–79; Düsseldorf SO 1966–70; Montreal SO 1974–6...
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Acosta, Cristóbal
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...of Good Hope. He practiced medicine in Burgos and was that city ’ s physician...y medicinas de las Indias orientales (Burgos, 1578), trans. into Italian by F...documents on Acosta ’ s practice in Burgos. Unfortunately, the information that...
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Colonia Family
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...known as Hans of Cologne): he settled in Burgos in Spain, where his family was associated...and La Cartuja de Miraflores, near Burgos (from 1441). Juan's sculptor-architect...c. 1511), succeeded his father at Burgos Cathedral in 1481, and designed the spectacular...
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Siloé, Diego de
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Siloé, Diego de ( b Burgos, c. 1495; d Granada, 22 Oct. 1563...as his native city) but who settled in Burgos and is regarded as the outstanding Spanish...alabaster, in the monastery of Miraflores, Burgos: the first is of John II of Castile and...
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Hontañon Family
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...chapels in the hall-church of San Antolin, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, and the Church of Santa Clara, Briviesca, Burgos (both c. 1503– c. 1523). He worked on the cloister and chapter-house of Palencia Cathedral (1505–...
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Vigarny, Felipe
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...10 Nov. 1542). Burgundian-born sculptor who spent all his known career in Spain. He is first documented in 1498, in Burgos, when he contracted to carve three large stone reliefs of Christ's Passion for the retrochoir of the cathedral. They show...
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Ruiz, Hipólito
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
RUIZ, HIP ó LITO ( b . Belorado, Burgos province, Spain, 8 August 1754; d . Madrid, Spain, 1816) botany . As a youth Ruiz was apprenticed to the pharmacy of an uncle...
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Babieca
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Babieca the name of El Cid's horse, said to have carried his master's dead body on its last journey from Valencia to Burgos. The name means informally ‘stupid’, and reflects the story that El Cid as a boy chose what appeared...
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