Word: valladolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spain's ironworkers are artisans beyond compare, and Spanish architects have known full well how to use their best craftsmen. When Philip II commanded Architect Juan Herrera to build the Cathedral of Valladolid in 1585, Herrera designed it to include a lofty screen, or reja, 45 ft. high and 47 ft. wide, that would span the width of the cathedral between the choir and the altar. Work on the wrought-iron grille .was begun about 1668; the gilding was not completed until 1764. In 1920, when the church rearranged the choir, the huge grille was removed...
...Bronx warehouse. Eventually, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which has in its towering Medieval Sculpture Hall a room made to order for the 60,000-lb. screen, began negotiating to buy it. Earlier this year the Hearst Foundation donated the screen to the museum. Last week, with Valladolid's masterpiece installed in its new setting (see cut), the Met could boast a treasure unequaled outside Spain...
Monthly expenses in Spain vary from $40 to $60. The most important Spanish Universities offering summer courses to foreigners are located at Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago, Seville Valladolid, and Zaragoza. In addition, Spanish language and history instruction is scheduled in special summer schools in Cadiz, Pamplona and Santander. The People's University of Segovia gives a one-month course on art history. Most institutions begin teaching early in July, with the Barcelona, Seville, and Valladolid universities starting in August...
...befell last week that Vicente Escudero danced again-in a farewell to his home town of Valladolid. with all the proceeds to go into a purse to send him to Paris in style. The news drew Escudero aficionados from as far as Madrid, who drove over the snow-filled mountain pass to the onetime capital of Old Castile to watch him once more...
Then came the letter from Paris. After his last bow to the farewell audience in Valladolid last week, Escudero put on his black cape and walked out of the theater, into one of the coldest nights Valladolid recalls. There, awaiting him, stood a shivering crowd, anxious to cheer him once more. Youngsters called for his autograph. A woman's voice rose above the rest. "Vicente!" she cried. "Our flowers are frozen, but we offer you our hearts." Vicente Escudero's face lit up with happiness. "It's like old times," he said. "I had forgotten. Thank...