Word: mezquita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Biggest? Bishop Freeman's dramatization of Washington Cathedral makes it seem the biggest cathedral in the world. It is not Saint Peter's in Rome, the Mezquita in Cordova and the Sainta Maria de La Sede in Seville, of those abroad, are far larger. Washington is like Notre Dame of Paris, Chartres, Rheims, Cologne and York cathedrals?famed less for size than for associations. In America there are notable cathedrals at Mexico City, Santa Fe and Montreal; and in Manhattan there is St. John the Divine...
...Fourth largest cathedral in the world. It is exceeded in size by only St. Peter's in Rome, the Mezquita in Cordoba, the Santa Maria de la Sede in Seville...
That vagabond who falls to go to the Vose Galleries to see the exhibition of Lopez Mezquita before it closes deserves to be read out of the Honorable Order of Vagabondage. There are many modern Spaniards who are better known in Boston fine arts than Mezquita, but for that very reason he should be seen...
There are many pictures which present the peculiar trend which impressionism has taken against the Spanish background, and which is most strikingly represented by the portraits of Zuloaga. Mezquita discards the landscape background and the black lace mantilla, however, in many of his pictures in favor of a more traditional treatment. The subject of one of these, called Paquita by the painter, would be enough to make this vagabond settle down and join the Rotary Club...