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Francisco Pacheco
Francisco Pacheco , c.1564-1654, Spanish portrait and religious painter. Although fine examples of his work are in the galleries of Madrid and Seville, he is best known as the instructor and father-in-law of Velázquez and as the author of Arte de la pintura (1649), which contains... Read more |
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Sanlucar de Barrameda
Pacheco, Francisco (bapt. Sanlúcar de Barrameda, nr. Cadiz, 3 Nov. 1564; d Seville, 1644). Spanish painter and writer, active in Seville. He was a highly cultured man, a poet and scholar as well as a painter, and his house was the focus of Seville's artistic life (Palomino describes it as a... Read more |
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Tirso de Molina
Tirso de Molina , pseud. of Fray Gabriel Téllez , 1584?-1648, outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Madrid. His fame rests on El burlador de Sevilla (1630; tr. The Love Rogue, 1924), the earliest known literary version of the Don Juan legend. Among the 300 or 400 plays by... Read more |
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Felix Lope de Vega Carpio
Félix Lope de Vega Carpio , 1562-1635, Spanish dramatic poet, founder of the Spanish drama, b. Madrid. Lope, born a peasant, was orphaned at an early age. He wrote the first of his nearly 1,800 plays at 12, and by 25 he was an established playwright and a celebrated wit. He was involved in... Read more |
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Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla , 1876-1946, Spanish composer; pupil of Felipe Pedrell. In Paris from 1907 to 1914, he met Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, and was to some extent influenced by their impressionism. His music, however, remained distinctively Spanish, rooted both in Andalusian folk music and the classical... Read more |
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Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel de Unamuno , 1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b. Bilbao. The chief Spanish philosopher of his time, he was professor of Greek at the Univ. of Salamanca and later rector there. His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused... Read more |
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La Damnation de Faust
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