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The Fascinating History of Spanish Colonial City Design
Cities like Bogota and Santiago owe their iconic layouts to the Spanish colonial "Laws of the Indies." Dive into the history ...
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A sense of realism: Spanish colonial artist Bernardo Miera y Pacheco
Bernardo Miera y Pacheco was born in 1713 in the Spanish village of Santibáñez ... of detailed descriptions in the maps that offer insight into colonial life in New Mexico.
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What is this Spanish Colonial beauty doing at Modernism Week?
two-bath adobe in addition to other Spanish Colonial and Mediterranean Revival style homes from the 1920s and ’30s. The home in Indian Wells was built by brothers Albert and Hubert “Bert ...
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The Lost 16th-Century Spanish Fort in South Carolina
The fort of San Marcos, located in present-day Parris Island, South Carolina, was one of five forts that existed in 1577 in the Spanish colonial town ... t leave us with a map of Santa Elena ...
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How Colonial Artisans Dazzled the New World
Like the mitote dance on view here (the Nahua-Spanish hybrid dance that colonial authorities tolerated), the New World was not Spain, and yet Spain touched all. Folding screens came from Asia ...
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Explore LACMA’s Spanish colonial treasures at the Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louisans have the opportunity to view a treasure trove of objects—from a gilt chalice to massive paintings inlaid with shells—from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s extensive collection of ...