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José Murature
José Félix Murature was a commodore of the Argentine Navy and a painter of Italian origin who served in several conflits including the Argentine Civil Wars, the Cisplatine War and the Paraguayan War. Arrival at the RÃo de la Plata Murtature was born in Genoa during the War of the Third Coalition. At the age of 11, he started as a midshipman on a French war frigate. During his youth he traveled in the Atlantic Ocean several times, reaching Brazil twice. In 1825 he arrived in Buenos Aires, a few weeks before the declaration of war by the Empire of Brazil. For a time, he worked with an uncle who owned merchant ships in Montevideo which was occupied by the Brazilians, and then returned to Buenos Aires. In January 1826 he enlisted in the fleet organized by Captain Guillermo Brown, and soon became an expert in river navigation on the RÃo de la Plata, Paraná and Uruguay. He was put in command of a small scout ship, which was very useful to Brown for information about the ene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa, had 855,834 resident persons. Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean: it is currently the busiest in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa was the capital of Republic of Genoa, one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797. Particularly from the 12th century to the 15th century, the city played a leading role in the commercial trade in Europe, becoming one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual arts), composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narrative, narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape art, lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floriano Zurowski
Floriano may refer to: People Surname * Francisco Floriano (born 1959), Brazilian politician * Roberto Floriano (born 1986), Italian footballer * Floriano Abrahamowicz (born 1961), Austrian priest Given name * Floriano Ambrosini (1557–1621), Italian architect and engineer * Floriano Buroni, 17th-century Italian engraver * Floriano Ferramola (c. 1478–1528), Italian painter * Floriano Martello (born 1952), Italian speed skater * Floriano Peixoto (1839–1895), Brazilian president * Floriano Peixoto (actor) (born 1959), Brazilian actor * Floriano Spiess (born 1967), Brazilian wrestler * Floriano Vanzo (born 1994), Belgian footballer Other uses * Floriano, PiauÃ, Brazil * Roman Catholic Diocese of Floriano, based in the city in Piauà * Floriano (horse), a horse ridden by Steffen Peters in dressage * San Floriano, a hamlet in Deutschnofen, South Tyrol, Italy See also * Floriano Peixoto (other) * Floriano River (other) * Florian (other) * Florianà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
