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Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo , 1899-1991, Mexican painter, b. Oaxaca. Considered one of the leading Mexican artists of the 20th cent., Tamayo first gained his reputation in the United States and in Europe before he was acclaimed in his native land. Less interested than Rivera or Siqueiros in an art of social... Read more |
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Robert Goldwater
Robert Goldwater 1907-73, American art historian, b. New York City. Goldwater taught at Queens College, N.Y., from 1934 to 1957, when he was appointed professor of fine arts at New York Univ. The same year he also became the director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. Known primarily... Read more |
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Puerto Barrios
Puerto Barrios , city (1994 est. pop. 29,095) and port, E Guatemala, capital of Izabal dept., on the Bay of Amatique, an arm of the Caribbean Sea. It was named after the Guatemalan politician Justo Rufino Barrios . Until the early 1970s the foreign-dominated deepwater port handled more trade than... Read more |
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Central American Federation
Central American Federation or Central American Union, political confederation (1825-38) of the republics of Central America—Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador. United under a captaincy general in Spanish colonial times, they gained independence in 1821 and were... Read more |
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Justo Rufino Barrios
Justo Rufino Barrios Justo Rufino Barrios (1835-1885) was a Guatemalan general and president whose sweeping innovations gave form to modern Guatemala and earned for him the sobriquet "the Reformer." Justo Barrios was born on July 19, 1835, in the department of San Marcos in western... Read more |
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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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Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Tamayo y Baus, Manuel (1829–98), Spanish dramatist, who represents the transition from Romanticism to Realism in the Spanish theatre. His early plays were first performed by his parents, who were both on the stage, and were mainly translations from the French and German. Of his own plays, La... 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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Pedro de Ona
Pedro de Oña , 1570?-1643, Chilean poet. Having been born in Latin America, he is considered Chile's first national poet. His poetry is both epic and religious. Inspired by La aravcana, by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga , he wrote the epic Arauco domado (1596; tr. Arauco... Read more |
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