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Spider Pharm: Chuck Kristensen raises and milks 50,000 spiders on his Arizona ranch. (Health).
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On a typical day at Chuck Kristensen's farm, he gets up, feeds the animals, and does the milking, just like on most farms. Except that Kristensen's animals aren't cows. They're spiders--50,000 of them--black widows and brown recluses and tarantulas and many other species, all living with Kristensen and his family on their Arizona property. He calls their place Spider Pharm.
Why would anyone want to raise spiders? For their venom, says Kristensen. Researchers from all over the world order toxins (poisons) from Spider Pharm. "There are 40,000 officially described ...
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Pedro Berruguete.(Exhibition Reviews)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...heart of the story of Pedro Berruguete, arguably the toast distinguished...Men. Nevertheless, Pedro Berruguete himself slips in and out of...Nowadays, it is his son Alonso who tends to steal the limelight...certain Justus of Ghent. Did Berruguete go to Urbino to assist Justus...
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Memorias y esplendores.(exposiciones de arte antiguo; España)(TT: Memories and splendor.)(TA: ancient art exhibitions; Spain)(Columna)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...empiezan a surgir nombres. Nombres como Pedro Berruguete -Los Reyes de Jud, de la iglesia de Santa...de Salomn de Frmista, Juan de Valmaseda, Alonso del Portillo, Alejo de Vaha, Alonso Berruguete o Juan de Villoldo, son algunos de los artistas...
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TRAVEL: CULTURE VULTURES: Passion and pain in Spain
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...swoon and suffer as their eyeballs turn back into their heads in religious ecstasy. Some of the sculptures are by Alonso Berruguete (1489-1561), who made it into the pages of Vasari's Lives. His Sacrifice of Abraham is nervous, pain-ful...
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Un maestro mexicano: carta de Nueva York.(Salvador Vidargas, escultor)(TT: A Mexican master: letter from New York.)(TA: Salvador Vidargas, sculptor)(Obituario)
Magazine article from: Proceso
; ...obra, atendiendo a la tcnica (y con qu autoridad, solidez y detalle poda hablar, por ejemplo, de una talla de Alonso Berruguete). De la inventiva, el diseo, podramos decir, hablaba menos. Cada imagen se daba para l ya entera, bajo cierta...
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Del jardín islámico de Gulbenkian a las pinturas del Museo Nacional de Escultura: Moros... y cristiano.(TT: From the Muslim garden of Gulbenkian to the paints of the National museum of sculpture: moors and christians.)(Artículo Breve)
Magazine article from: Epoca
; ...verdaderas joyas de la pintura bajomedieval, renacentista y del comienzo del Barroco firmadas por autores como Alonso y Pedro Berruguete, Zurbarn, Rubens, Jan Brueghel de Velours, el maestro de San Ildefonso, Gregorio Martnez o Pantoja de la...
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Los Campos Góticos. (España)(TT: Gothic scenery) (TA: Spain)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad
; ...riqueza artstica y fue residencia del pintor Pedro Berruguete y cuna de su hijo Alonso. Tambin la haran popular Gmez Manrique y Jorge...destacada y en ella se conservan creaciones de los Berruguete, de Esteban Jordn y una destacada coleccin de...
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Imposible hacer la biografía del supuesto pintor de la Guadalupana: tras el rastro del indio Marcos de Aquino o Marcos Cípac. (Cultura).(TT: Obstacles to the creation of a biography of alleged painter of image of Virgin of Guadalupe: the search for Native Mexican painter Marcos de Aquino or Marcos Cípac. (Culture).)
Magazine article from: Proceso
; ...Naturales, Bustamante se opona as al entonces arzobispo de Mxico, Alonso de Montfar, quien fomentaba la devocin en el Tepeyac de esta...tiempo de aquel antiguo o afamado Apeles, o de Miguel Angel o Berruguete que son de nuestros tiempos tambin los pusieran en el nmero...
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