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The Reina–Valera is a Spanish translation of the Bible originally published in 1602 when Cipriano de Valera revised an earlier translation produced in 1569 by Casiodoro de Reina. This translation was known as the "Biblia del Oso" (in English: Bear Bible ) [ 1 ] because the illustration on the title page showed a bear trying to reach a ...
Andean Baroque (Spanish: Barroco andino or arquitectura mestiza) is an artistic movement that appeared in colonial Peru between 1680 and 1780. [1] It is located geographically between Arequipa and Lake Titicaca in what is now Peru, where rules over the highlands and spreads over the entire altiplano .
The Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Segovia and the Royal Palace of Aranjuez in Aranjuez are good examples of Baroque integration of architecture and gardening, with noticeable French influence (La Granja is known as the "Spanish Versailles"), but with local spatial conceptions which in some ways display the heritage of the ...
The Baroque architecture period began with the creation of the basilica with crossed dome and nave.One of the first Roman structures to move away from the Mannerist conventions, like the Church of the Gesù, was the church of Church of Saint Susanna, designed by Carlo Maderno in 1596.
Mafra National Palace, panoramic view. Baroque architecture in Portugal lasted about two centuries (the late seventeenth century and eighteenth century). The reigns of John V and Joseph I had increased imports of gold and diamonds, in a period called Royal Absolutism or Absolute monarchy, which allowed the Portuguese Baroque to flourish.
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Entrevista de los Presidentes Díaz-Taft (Mexico), a documentary directed by the Alva Brothers; Faust, directed by J. Searle Dawley and Edwin S. Porter for Thomas Edison; The Ferryman's Sweetheart (Gaumont) [8] The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight; The Forbidden Fruit (Pathe) [8] Gertie the Dinosaur, animated cartoon by Winsor McKay [8] Goddess of ...
Cipriano de Valera (1531–1602) was a Spanish Protestant Reformer and refugee who edited the first major revision of Casiodoro de Reina's Spanish Bible, which has become known as the Reina-Valera version. Valera also edited an edition of Calvin's Institutes in Spanish, as well as writing and editing several other works.