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Francisco de Ibarra
Francisco de Ibarra , 1539?-1575, Spanish conquistador in Mexico. In 1554, after founding Fresnillo , he headed an expedition to the N of Zacatecas. For the next 20 years he explored, founded settlements, and exploited mines in the vast region comprising present-day Durango, Chihuahua, and part of... Read more |
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Thomas Hope
Hope, Thomas (1769–1831). British connoisseur and virtuoso, born in Amsterdam, where his family, of Scots descent, had resided and worked as merchants and bankers for several generations. An avid collector of antiques as well as modern Neo-Classical sculpture, he became an arbiter of taste... Read more |
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William Valentiner
Valentiner, William (b Karlsruhe, 2 May 1880; d New York, 6 Sept. 1958). German-American art historian, one of the foremost connoisseurs of Dutch painting, on which he published numerous books. From 1906 to 1908 he worked at the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, under Bode, then moved to the... Read more |
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Ernst Haefliger
Ernst Haefliger The Swiss tenor Ernst Haefliger (1919-2007) was termed “one of the finest of all lyric tenors” by London's Daily Telegraph. Haefliger never achieved the superstar status of tenors like Luciano Pavarotti or Plácido Domingo. Yet among connoisseurs of classical... Read more |
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Kunstkammer
Kunstkammer. German term (literally ‘art chamber’) used to describe a type of collection of pictures and curios popular with princely connoisseurs in the 16th and 17th centuries. The pieces in such collections (which were by no means confined to Germany) might include anything from a... Read more |
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James Morrison Steele Mackaye
Mackaye, [James Morrison] Steele (1842–94), playwright. One of the most important innovators in late 19th‐century American theatre, he was born in Buffalo, where his father was a respected lawyer and art connoisseur. He studied art in Paris before returning home to fight in the Civil... Read more |
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Gustav Friedrich Waagen
Waagen, Gustav Friedrich (b Hamburg, 11 Feb. 1794; d Copenhagen, 15 July 1868). German art historian. He made his name with a book on the van Eycks, published in 1822, and in 1832 he was appointed director of the newly founded Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. In 1844 he became the first holder of a... Read more |
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Sir Joseph Archer Crowe
Crowe, Sir Joseph Archer (b London, 20 Oct. 1825; d Gamburg an der Tauber, Germany, 6 Sept. 1896). English journalist, diplomat, and art historian, brother of the painter Eyre Crowe (1824–1910). He had a distinguished career as a commercial attaché in Berlin, Paris, and Vienna and was... Read more |
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Sir George Beaumont
Beaumont, Sir George (b Great Dunmow, Essex, 6 Nov. 1753; d Coleorton, Leicestershire, 7 Feb. 1827). English collector, connoisseur, and amateur painter, the friend of numerous artists and men of letters; his best-known painting, Peele Castle in a Storm (1806, priv. coll.), moved Wordsworth to... Read more |
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Roderick Hudson
Roderick Hudson, novel by Henry James, published in 1876. The character Christina also appears in The Princess Casamassima.Rowland Mallet, a wealthy connoisseur, struck by the genius of the amateur sculptor Roderick Hudson, takes the youth abroad to develop his art. Among their friends in Rome are... Read more |
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Famous Mineral Localities: Fresnillo: Zacatecas, Mexico
...located near Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. Over the last decade Fresnillo has had an...veins rich in pyrargyrite, acanthite...of solid pyrargyrite 35 cm thick...district in Mexico as the most...deposits of ... |
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Famous mineral localities: Fresnillo: Zacatecas, Mexico.
...located near Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. Over the last decade Fresnillo has had an...veins rich in pyrargyrite, acanthite...of solid pyrargyrite 35 cm thick...district in Mexico as the most...deposits of ... |
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Miguel Romero Sanchez (1925-1997).(Biography)
...terrain also blessed Mexico with tremendous...modern history of Mexico begins with the...Taxco, Pachuca, Zacatecas, Fresnillo and Guanajuato...has been mined in Mexico is extraordinary...calcite, amethyst, pyrargyrite, ... |
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MIGUEL ROMERO SANCHEZ (1925-1997)
...terrain also blessed Mexico with tremendous...modern history of Mexico begins with the...Taxco, Pachuca, Zacatecas, Fresnillo and Guanajuato...has been mined in Mexico is extraordinary...calcite, amethyst, pyrargyrite, ... |
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Rochester Mineralogical Symposium 1999.
...Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico has recently produced...from a buying trip in Mexico, and showed off some...specimens, especially the pyrargyrite crystals to 2.2 cm...level) San Luis mine, Fresnillo, Zacatecas. Costa Mesa Show 1999... |
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What's new in minerals: Cincinnati show 1999
...his way back from a buying trip in Mexico, and showed off some of his new...Mexican specimens, especially the pyrargyrite crystals to 2.2 cm on amethyst...Vein (530 level) San Luis mine, Fresnillo, Zacatecas. |
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