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Santiago Argüello was born in Monterey, Las Californias Province of New Spain.He was the son of: José Darío Argüello - a soldier, pioneer in Las Californias, founder of Pueblo de Los Angeles (Los Angeles), twice a Spanish colonial governor (of Alta California and of Baja California); and María Ignacia Moraga - a niece of José Joaquín Moraga, the founder of Pueblo de San José ().
The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Spanish: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino) is an art museum dedicated to the study and display of pre-Columbian artworks and artifacts from Central and South America. [1] The museum is located in the city centre of Santiago, the capital of Chile.
This work has turned out to be controversial, since it had previously been assigned by an open international call to the artist Manuel Ortega in January 1988. [9] Another issue arose when identical copies of the icons were found in a church in Arroyo Hondo, near Santo Domingo. [ 10 ]
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Argüello (Spanish pronunciation: [aɾˈɣweʎo]) is a Spanish surname, most commonly associated with the early settlers in the cities of Granada, Nicaragua and of Córdoba, Argentina, as well as throughout Mexico and, in the United States, in what is now the state of California, the so-called Californio Argüellos.
Rancho Tía Juana, or Ti Juan was a land grant made to Santiago Arguello on March 4, 1829, by Governor José María de Echeandía.It covered 26,019.53 acres in what is now Tijuana in Tijuana Municipality in Baja California, Mexico, and parts of San Ysidro and the Tijuana River Valley, San Diego, in South San Diego in San Diego County, California.
An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects is a book written by the Spanish painter Antonio Palomino and dedicated to the biographies of the most eminent artists who worked in Spain during the so-called Siglo de Oro, the golden age of Spanish art.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Capriccio with Ruins and Porta Portello, Padua: c. 1750: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy The Thames from the Terrace of Somerset House, Looking toward Westminster 1750: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States Bacino di S. Marco- From the Piazzetta: c. 1750