Word: fuentiduena
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...photograph over to Medievalist James J. Rorimer, who was later to be director of The Cloisters and now runs the whole Met Rorimer set out for Paris, and after months of questioning and searching, he found that the apse was not in France but in the tiny village of Fuentiduena 45 miles north of Segovia. There it had once been part of a church dedicated to St. Martin (316-397), the great Bishop of Tours whose cult had spread from France to Spain. Though the apse was nothing but a shell exposed to the weather and was not even pictured...
...have. With the help of the U.S. embassy, he began negotiations. After ten years, the government agreed to "lend" the apse to The Cloisters if the Met in turn would buy six Spanish frescoes to "lend" to the Prado and undertake the restoration of another church in Fuentiduena. The Bishop of Segovia agreed to the transaction, after clearing it with the Vatican...
...Sarria, de Taragona, de Villanueva del Rio. de Villanueva del Fresno, de Barcarrota y de la Algaba, 24th CONDE DE LEMOS, Conde de Lerin, de Monterrey, de Osorno, de Miranda del Castanar, de Andrade, de Fuentes de Valdepero, de Gelves, de Villalba, de San Esteban de Gormaz, de Fuentiduena, de Casarrubios del Monte, de Galve y de Siruela, CONSTABLE OF NAVARRE. 14 times Grandee of Spain...
| 1 |