Ica
Ica , city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica region, SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway . It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. Ica is also the archaeological name of the Chincha empire of ancient Peru, which had one of its major centers in the adjacent valley. The empire fell to the Inca in the 15th cent. The Spanish settled the city in 1563. In Ica is the shrine of Our Lord of Luren, the site of colorful pilgrimages. The city has been devastated by earthquakes several times, most recently in 2007. It has a museum and a university.
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'To market to market ...' and risk for global disease.(ABOUT THE COVER)(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...painter and source of inspiration for Constant Troyon and others, who looked for subjects...Barbizon artists to become successful, Troyon became known as one of the best...Brittany and Normandy. In the 1830s, Troyon started exhibiting in the Salon...
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Fields of dreams.(ARTS & CULTURE: Shopping Smart)
Magazine article from: Town & Country; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Virgile Diaz de la Peria, Jules Dupre, Charles Emile Jacques, Jean Francois Millet, Theodore Rousseau and Constant Troyon (left, Troyon's Bounding Up the Sheep, circa 1850). How Much: From $20,000 to $30,000 for a very small oil by...
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BOUDIN SHOW SOOTHES LIKE A SEASIDE SUMMER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...of paintings by other artists included here: Monet; Constant Troyon and Eugene Isabey, who were early influences on Boudin...Boudin in context, these other works also outclass his. Troyon's silky little "On the Cliff," from the late 1850s...
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Ode to Joy
Magazine article from: Ohio; 2/1/2007; ; 680 words
; ...of fight and color, he was schooled as a realist under the tutelage of luminaries including Camille Pissarro and Constant Troyon. "Monet came on the scene in the 1860s as an artist painting the coast," Lemonedes says. "He had this amazing...
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Monet A-Z
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 7/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...open air. Still, not all his advice was heeded: when Boudin introduced him to his own former teacher, the painter Constant Troyon, Monet rejected his academic methods outright and instead joined a less conventional school of thought at the Academie...
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Boston art events run the gamut
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/9/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Belgian artist Gerard Portielje (1856- 1929) and "Ewe and Lamb" ($18,000-$22,000) by the French artist Constant Troyon (1810-65). Headlining the modern art is a 40-by-70-inch oil "Cosmic" ($15,000-$25,000) by the...
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Barbizon; Charming village just south of Paris was a favourite of 19th-century artists.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: Guelph Mercury (Guelph, Ontario); 6/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Pena; the successful Parisian sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye; the animal painters Constant Troyon, known for his cow images and Charles Jacque, who was so fascinated by chickens he started a poultry farm. The...
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Seaside views: From gloom to a merry whiff in the air
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...known gems.''The Coast near Villers,'' from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, done a few years later by Constant Troyon displays a kinship in the mood, despite stylistic differences. The sea, which is gray-green in the distance and...
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`Helping Hand' for Sale; Corcoran Work Among 28 to Be Auctioned
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/25/1988; ; 675 words
; ...Knaus, George Morland, Antonio Moro, Giovanni Piazzetta, Johann Preyer, August Schaeffer, Adolfe Schreyer and Constant Troyon. Of the sculptures, perhaps the best known is the bronze Italian Madonna by the American-born Jacob Epstein...
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Seeing and not seeing.(Art)(Claude Monet's art)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...before Monet (we have only to look at a little gem in this exhibition called Field Outside Paris, painted in 1845 by Constant Troyon), one wonders what all the fuss was about. But fuss there was. In many respects, the Paris art world of 1863...
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Constant Troyon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Constant Troyon , 1810-65, French painter of the Barbizon school , famous for his pictures of animals, particularly cows, in landscape. Among his paintings are Oxen at Work (Louvre) and Holland Cattle and Road in the Woods (Metropolitan Mus.).
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Troyon, Constant
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Troyon, Constant (1810–65). French painter. He was born in Sè...and freedom of his work influencing Boudin and Monet in this genre. Troyon was a prolific and internationally successful painter, and his work...
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Barbizon School
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...Daubigny , Narcisse Diaz , Jules Dupré (1811–89), Charles Jacque (1813–94), and Constant Troyon . They were united in their opposition to the conventions of the classical tradition stemming from Claude and Poussin...
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Barbizon school
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...principal figure of the group, which included the artists Jules Dupré, Narciso Diaz de la Peña, Constant Troyon, and Charles Daubigny. These men reacted against the conventions of classical landscape and advocated a direct study...
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