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La República Argentina (sculpture)
is a monumental sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Hugues, that was a central part of the Argentine Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle (1889), Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1889. History The Argentine Pavilion At the Paris Universal Exhibition held in 1889, 35 countries built enormous pavilions that were used by each nation to show its progress and cultural level. Each pavilion tried to represent the wealth of the participant nation. Argentina was one of the invited countries, which gave an opportunity for its political leadership to show the economic strength of a nation that had experienced major modernisation and transformation in the preceding twenty years. The Argentine Pavilion was in the Champ de Mars; a privileged place because of its nearness to the Eiffel Tower, which was the entrance to the exhibition. The Argentine Pavilion was designed in a European style, as compared to the Mexican and the Brazilian pavilions that emphasized their Latin American heritage. To bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Hugues
Jean-Baptiste Hugues (15 April 1849, in Marseille – 28 October 1930, in Paris) was a French sculptor. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1875. He was resident at the Villa Medicis from 1876 to 1879. When he was alive, he gained some fame : his works were exhibited at the French art salons and academies, Salons and were always commented on by critics and writers at the time. He produced several sculptures including ''La Fontaine des Danaïdes'' in Marseille or ''La Gravure '' at the National Library, pediments, bas-reliefs on monuments, busts, fountains and ceilings of Parisian restaurants.''Jean-Baptiste Hugues, un sculpteur sous la III République'', Laurent Noet, Théles editions, 2002, () Works * ''Ombres de Paolo et Francesca da Rimini'', outline for the Prix de Rome, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1877 * ''Femme jouant avec son enfant'', marble, La Piscine (museum of art and industry), Roubaix, 1880 * ''Œdipe à Colone'', Musée d'Orsay, 1885 * ''La República Argenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaza San Martín (Buenos Aires)
Plaza San Martín (English language, English: ''San Martín Square'') is a park located in the Retiro, Buenos Aires, Retiro neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Situated at the northern end of pedestrianized Florida Street, the park is bounded by Avenida del Libertador (Buenos Aires), Libertador Ave. (N), Maipú St. (W), Santa Fe Avenue (S), and Leandro Alem Av. (E). Its coordinates are . History A succession of colonial Spanish Empire, Spanish governors had their official residences built on what today is the plaza and, in 1713, the land was sold to the British Empire, British South Sea Company. The South Sea Company operated their History of slavery, slave trade out of the former governor's residence and a fort and bullring were later built nearby. The land was the site of Gen. John Whitelocke's 1807 defeat upon Britain's British invasions of the Río de la Plata, second attempt to conquer Buenos Aires, whereby the area became known as the "Field of Glory". The May Revolu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, animal fiber, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starting with the Neolithic Revolution when animals were first Domestication, domesticated, from around 13,000 BC onwards, predating farming of the History of agriculture, first crops. During the period of ancient societies like ancient Egypt, cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs were being raised on farms. Major changes took place in the Columbian exchange, when Old World livestock were brought to the New World, and then in the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century, when livestock breeds like the English Longhorn, Dishley Longhorn cattle and Lincoln (sheep), Lincoln Longwool sheep were rapidly improved by agriculturalists, such as Robert Bakewell (agriculturalist), Robert Bakewell, to yi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phrygian Cap
The Phrygian cap ( ), also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft Pointed hat, conical Hat, cap with the apex bent over, associated in Classical antiquity, antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. The Phrygian cap was worn by Thracians, Dacians, Persians, Medes, Scythians, Troy, Trojans, and Phrygians after whom it is named. The oldest known depiction of the Phrygian cap is from Persepolis in Iran. Although Phrygian caps did not originally function as liberty caps, they came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty first in the American Revolution and then in the French Revolution, particularly as a symbol of Jacobinism (in which context it has been also called a Jacobin cap). The original cap of liberty was the Roman ''Pileus (hat), pileus'', the felt cap of emancipated slaves of ancient Rome, which was an attribute of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. In the 16th century, the Roman iconography of liberty was revived in emblem b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palermo, Buenos Aires
Palermo is a or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located in the north of the city, near the Río de la Plata. It has a total land area of 17.4 km2 and a population of 249,016. It is the only within the administrative division of Comuna 14. Palermo is perhaps best known as the polo capital of the world. Each year, in November, the city hosts the Argentine Polo Open, commonly known as the Palermo Open. History The name of the area is derived from the still-existing Franciscan abbey of "Saint Benedict of Palermo", an alternative name for Saint Benedict the Moor. Saint Benedict the Moor lived from 1526 to 1589 and is a complementary patron saint of Palermo, the capital city of Sicily. In an alternative history of the name, a folk story supported by journalists, the land would have been originally purchased by an Italian Argentine, Italian immigrant named Juan Dominguez Palermo, Juan Domingo Palermo in the late 16th century, shortly after the foundation of Buenos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parque Tres De Febrero
Parque Tres de Febrero, popularly known as Bosques de Palermo (Palermo Woods), is an urban park of approximately 400 hectares (about 989 acres) located in the neighborhood of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Located between Libertador and Figueroa Alcorta Avenues, it is known for its groves, lakes, and rose gardens (''El Rosedal''). History Following the 1852 overthrow of strongman Juan Manuel de Rosas, his extensive northside Buenos Aires properties became public lands and, in 1862, a municipal ordinance provided for a city park on most of that land. On the initiative of Congressman Vicente Fidel López and President Domingo Sarmiento, work began in 1874 on ''Parque Tres de Febrero'' (February 3 Park), named in honor of February 3, 1852, the date of the defeat of Governor Rosas, among whose opponents had been Sarmiento. Designed by urbanist Jordán Czeslaw Wysocki and architect Julio Dormal, the park was inaugurated on November 11, 1875. The dramatic economic growth o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Buenos Aires
The University of Buenos Aires (, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the second-oldest university in the country, and the largest university of the country by enrollment. Established in 1821, the UBA has educated 17 President of Argentina, Argentine presidents, produced four of the country's five Nobel Prize laureates, and is responsible for approximately 40% of the country's research output. The university's academic strength and regional leadership make it attractive to many international students, especially at the postgraduate level. Just over 4 percent of undergraduates are foreigners, while 15 percent of postgraduate students come from abroad. The Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Economic Sciences has the highest rate of international postgraduate students at 30 percent, in line with its reputation as a "top business school with significant international influence." The University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mataderos
Mataderos (Spanish for "slaughterhouses") is a ''barrio'' (neighbourhood) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the three ''barrios'' that make up the Comuna 9, alongside Liniers and Parque Avellaneda. Located in the south-west end of the city, it takes its name from the livestock market and various slaughterhouses located within it. History For much of its history, the area was a meeting point between the city and the countryside, and thus became a hub for rural commerce, and the main stop for gauchos inside city limits. Many famous '' payadas'' (improvised lyric contests) took place in the neighborhood bars. Mataderos is the site of the ''Mercado de Liniers'' (the National Cattle Ranchers' Market), established in 1900, where up to 50,000 cattle are sold weekly to supply the beef market for the Greater Buenos Aires area; its headquarters, an Italianate arcade completed in 1899, also houses the ''Museo de los Corrales Viejos'' (Old Corrals Museum). The courtyard facing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escuela Técnica Raggio
The is a government-run secondary school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The school is located in Nuñez, on Avenida del Libertador near Avenida General Paz. It is the only technical school in Buenos Aires that wasn't a part of the National Council of Technical Education (CONET), a national organization that grouped trade schools together between 1959 and 1994. History The Raggio Technical School was designed and built by civil engineers Emilio Seitún and Andrés T. Raggio, brother of Rómulo Raggio, the sponsor of the construction of the building. The school originally had two pavilions, the ''Lorenzo Raggio'' for the boys, and the ''María Celle de Raggio'' for the girls, both named in honour of the parents of the Raggio brothers. Andrés Raggio managed the construction of the building. The school was inaugurated on 8 December 1924, in a ceremony that was attended by Argentina's President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear and the Governor of Buenos Aires, Carlos Noel. Other atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyenda Monumento
''Asturias'' (''Leyenda''), named simply ''Prelude'' by its composer, is a musical work by the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909). The piece, which lasts around six minutes in performance, was originally written for the piano and set in the key of G minor. It was first published in Barcelona, by Juan Bta. Pujol & Co., in 1892 as the prelude of a three-movement set entitled ''Chants d'Espagne''. The name ''Asturias (Leyenda)'' was given to it posthumously by the German publisher Hofmeister, who included it in the 1911 "complete version" of the ''Suite española'', although Albéniz never intended the piece for this suite. Despite the new name, this music is not considered suggestive of the folk music of the northern Spanish region of Asturias, but rather of Andalusian flamenco traditionsEverything You Ever Wanted To Know About... ALBÉNIZ'S LEYENDA (Preludio-Asturias), http://stanleyyates.com/articles/albeniz/leyenda.html (although the drama of the musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Revolution
The May Revolution () was a week-long series of events that took place from 18 to 25 May 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. This Spanish colony included roughly the territories of present-day Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and parts of Brazil. The result was the removal of Viceroy#Spanish Empire, Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros and the establishment of a local government, the Primera Junta (''First Junta''), on 25 May. The May Revolution was a direct reaction to Peninsular War, Napoleon's invasion of Spain. In 1808, King Ferdinand VII of Spain Abdications of Bayonne, abdicated in favour of Napoleon, who granted the throne to his brother, Joseph Bonaparte. A Supreme Central and Governing Junta of the Kingdom (Spain), Supreme Central Junta led resistance to Joseph's government and the French occupation of Spain, but eventually suffered Peninsular War#Corunna campaign, 1808–1809, a series of reversals that resulted in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze Sculpture
Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as well as bronze elements to be fitted to other objects such as furniture. It is often gilding, gilded to give gilt-bronze or ormolu. Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mould. Then, as the bronze cools, it shrinks a little, making it easier to separate from the mould. Their strength and wikt:ductility, ductility (lack of brittleness) is an advantage when figures in action poses are to be created, especially when compared to various ceramic or stone materials (such as marble sculpture). These qualities allow the creation of extended figures, as in ''Jeté'', or figures that have small cross sections in their support, such as the Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
