* In Neal Stephenson's three-volume The Baroque Cycle, 17th century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of " heavier " gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.

It developed in 16th century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite ( the French gigue ; Italian and Spanish giga ).

The façade, belonging to the Baroque Spanish colonial restorations of 1650 – 1723, has a rectangular portico surmounted by three niches housing statues of saints.

The main façade ( 1736 – 1754 ) is considered a masterpiece of the Spanish Baroque style.

Category: Spanish Baroque painters

* Branle, Baroque dance ( Spanish form )

As a youth, Hernández greatly admired the Spanish Baroque lyric poet Luis de Góngora, who was an influence in his early works.

This covers amongst other periods Byzantine and Anglo Saxon ivory sculptures, British, French and Spanish medieval statues and carvings, the Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Victorian and Art Nouveau periods.

Amadis de Gaula ( original Old Spanish and Galician-Portuguese spelling ) (, ;, ; " Amadis of Gaul ") is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales which were in vogue in 16th century Iberian Peninsula, and formed the earliest reading of many Renaissance and Baroque writers, although it was written at the onset of the 14th century.

Spanish music was incorporated into Spanish Baroque music in the harpsichord works of Soler.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ( born late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682 ) was a Spanish Baroque painter.

It is an octagonal Baroque mausoleum made of marble where all of the Spanish monarchs since Charles I have been buried, with the exception of Philip V, Ferdinand of Savoy, and Amadeus of Savoy.

The main portal is Spanish Baroque and has three levels.

Tirso de Molina ( March 24, 1579-March 12, 1648 ) was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and a Roman Catholic monk.

The relationship between illusion and reality were central concerns in Spanish culture during the 17th century, figuring largely in Don Quixote: the best-known work of Spanish Baroque literature.

Located at 429 Castro Street, in the Castro district, it was built in 1922 with a Spanish Colonial Baroque façade that pays homage — in its great arched central window surmounted by a scrolling pediment framing a niche — to the recently rebuilt basilica of Mission Dolores nearby.

* November 7 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish Baroque painter ( died 1664 )

Competitions had become the rage during the Baroque era to design buildings, fountains, and even the Spanish Steps.

The most talented architects active in Rome — Francesco de Sanctis ( Spanish Steps, 1723 ) and Filippo Raguzzini ( Piazza Sant ' Ignazio, 1727 )— had little influence outside their native country, as did numerous practitioners of the Sicilian Baroque, including Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Andrea Palma, and Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia.

As early as 1667, the façades of Granada Cathedral ( by Alonso Cano ) and Jaén Cathedral ( by Eufrasio López de Rojas ) suggest the artists ' fluency in interpreting traditional motifs of Spanish cathedral architecture in the Baroque aesthetic idiom.

Two of the most eye-catching creations of Spanish Baroque are the energetic façades of the University of Valladolid ( Diego Tomé, 1719 ) and Hospicio de San Fernando in Madrid ( Pedro de Ribera, 1722 ), whose curvilinear extravagance seems to herald Antonio Gaudí and Art Nouveau.

Nobles leveled old buildings, using their Aztec stones and Spanish bricks to build more fashionable Baroque and Neo classic style mansions.

The gallery houses one of the country ’ s finest collections of Old Masters, especially rich in French, Italian and Spanish Baroque paintings and in British portraits from Tudor times to the 19th century.

* 2007 – The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch ( 1904 ), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.

Image: Edouard Manet 061. jpg | The Spanish Singer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1860

After completing her commission for the archbishop, Cassatt traveled to Madrid and Seville, where she painted a group of paintings of Spanish subjects, including Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla ( 1873, in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ).

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File: Santo, Harwood. jpg | Santo, Small Spanish Colonial retablo, Harwood Museum of Art

File: Bulto, Harwood. jpg | Spanish colonial bulto, Harwood Museum of Art

File: SpanishDance c1884-DegasPC20080120-8849A. jpg | The Spanish Dance, c. 1885 ( bronze cast 1921 ), bronze, 46. 3 x 14. 3 cm, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

* Spaanse Kunst 1984, ( Spanish Art ), Nouvelles Images Gallery, The Hague, Holland.

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One of these houses the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, the museum being one of the finest of its kind.

By Spanish Civil Code Art.

* Spanish Pre-Romanesque Art Guide ; San Julian de los Prados.

* Spanish Pre-Romanesque Art Guide ; Santa María del Naranco.

* Spanish Pre-Romanesque Art Guide ; San Miguel de Lillo.

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* Spanish Pre-Romanesque Art Guide ; Santa María del Naranco.

* Spanish Pre-Romanesque Art Guide ; San Miguel de Lillo.

* Spanish Pre-Romanesque Art Guide ; Santa Cristina de Lena.

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