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Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near Bastrop, Texas, to a family of Mexican American tenant farmers. [3] His father, Porfirio G. Salinas, and his mother, Clara G. Chavez Salinas, left the farm for San Antonio when Porfirio was a child. [4]
The Spanish Governor's Palace is a historic adobe from the Spanish Texas period located in Downtown San Antonio.. It is the last visible trace of the 18th-century colonial Presidio San Antonio de Béxar complex, and the only remaining example in Texas of an aristocratic 18th-century Spanish Colonial in−town residence. [4]
Statue of Antonio Gil y Barbo, Plaza Principal, Nacogdoches, erected in 1997 The Old Stone Fort, built by Gil Ybarbo about 1790, and later reconstructed.. Dón Antonio Gil Ybarbo (1729–1809), also known as Gil Ybarbo or Gil Ibarbo was a Spanish military personnel and trader of the Spanish Texas times, who played a crucial role in the development of Nacogdoches, Texas in 1779.
The Meadows Museum, nicknamed "Prado on the Prairie", is a two-story, 66,000 sq. ft. [2] art museum in Dallas, Texas on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU). ). Operating as a division of SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, the museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, with works dating from the 10th to the 21st c
Eugenio Montero Ríos (1832–1914) Spanish Prime Minister and President of the Senate of Spain. Juan Carlos I (born 1938), King of Spain (1975–2014) Federica Montseny (1905–1994), Minister of Health (1936–1937) and anarchist - first woman to be a minister in Spanish History; José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903–1936)
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is a National Historical Park and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving four of the five Spanish frontier missions in San Antonio, Texas, US. These outposts were established by Catholic religious orders to spread Christianity among the local natives. These missions formed part of a ...
The Art of medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1993. ISBN 0870996851. Berg Sobré, Judith. Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retablo in Spain, 1350-1500. Columbia, Miss. 1989. Brown, Jonathan, Painting in Spain, 1500-1700 (Pelican History of Art), Yale University Press, 1998, ISBN 0300064748
Jordan received an offer to become the director of the Meadows Museum while still a graduate student in 1966.. When Jordan was offered the post of the director of the recently opened Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, the museum was struggling with an art scandal that had damaged its reputation; 44 paintings in their collection had turned out to have been ...