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In the second half of the 16th century a series of economic, political, and religious circumstances created tensions in the relations between England and Spain. Protestant England came into direct confrontation with Catholic Spain; Elizabeth I of England had been excommunicated by Pope Pius V in 1570, whilst in 1584 Philip II of Spain had signed the Treaty of Joinville with the French Catholic ...
The subject of the painting, (Charlotte) Louise Burckhardt (1862—1892), [2] was the twenty-year-old daughter of a Swiss merchant from Basel, members of the artist's cosmopolitan circle in Paris. She was the first wife of the fruit importer ("Banana King") Roger Ackerley, father of the writer J. R. Ackerley ; she died after two years of marriage.
Because of the constant singing of eighth notes in 6 8 meter at an allegro vivace tempo, the piece is often noted as one of the most difficult baritone arias to perform. [1] This, along with the tongue-twisting nature of some of the lines, insisting on Italian superlatives (always ending in "-issimo"), have made it a pièce de résistance in which a skilled baritone has the chance to highlight ...
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The Spanish Singer is an 1860 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Édouard Manet, conserved since 1949 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. Composed in Manet's studio, it employed a model and props which were later used for at least one other painting. [ 1 ]
La púrpura de la rosa (The Blood of the Rose) is an opera in one act, composed by Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco to a Spanish libretto by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, a great writer of the Spanish Golden Age. It is the first known opera to be composed and performed in the Americas [2] and is Torrejón y Velasco's only surviving opera.
Taylor Swift gave fans a gift at her Argentina concert Thursday night when she substituted words from one of her most iconic songs with a popular Argentinian expression in Spanish.
Lola, who is the only daughter of Ripa and Mark, both 53, also released a snippet of the cover via TikTok. (The Live With Kelly and Mark cohosts also share sons Michael, 26, and Joaquin, 21.). In ...