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4 unusual facts about Prado


Gesine Bullock-Prado

She co-founded the production company Fortis Films in 1995 with her sister, actress Sandra Bullock, and their father.

Bullock was born in Washington, D.C. Her father, John W. Bullock (born 1925), was a United States Army employee and part-time voice coach; and her mother, Helga Mathilde Meyer (1942–2000), was a German-born opera singer and voice teacher.

Prado, Montevideo

Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, popularly known as "Iglesia de los Carmelitas" (Roman Catholic, Carmelites)

The park of Prado, known as Parque Prado is an important venue for the citizens of Montevideo.


Algur H. Meadows

On business trips to Madrid in the 1950s, Meadows visited the Prado museum, which inspired an interest in Spanish old masters.

Balboa, Panama

Sightseeing highlights for anyone visiting Balboa today include the Administration Building, Mi Pueblito Afroantillano, scenic overlook of Ancon Hill (from which can be seen a set of locks of the Canal), monument Homenaje a la Democracia, the Goethals Memorial, the Prado, two handicraft markets, three bed-and-breakfast hotels, and a country store and café near the Administration Building.

Canton of Marseille-Vauban

It is also composed of a part of the 8th municipal arrondissement situated north of an imaginary line between the end of the impasses du Roc-Fleuri, Tertian and des Colonies, rue de la Turbine (excluded), rue du Lycée-Périer, traverse Périer, boulevard Périer, rue Paradis, rue de Cluny, rue du Chalet, rue Florac, rue Daumier, avenue du Prado and rue Borde.

Dámaso

Mariano Dámaso Beraun District one of six districts of the province Leoncio Prado in Peru

Daniel Nuñez del Prado

Daniel Nuñez del Prado (29 July 1840 in La Paz, Bolivia – 1891) was a revolutionary Bolivian doctor of medicine.

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma

Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma is a 1603 portrait of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma by Rubens, now in the Prado in Madrid.

Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke

He then traveled to Peru where he started work at the Javier Prado Museum of Natural History in Lima, an institution affiliated with the National University of San Marcos.

Into the Pandemonium

The cover image is a detail from the right (Hell) panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych painted in 1504 by Hieronymus Bosch, now part of the permanent collection at the Prado in Madrid.

Itamaraju

On 22 April 1500 a Portuguese fleet under the command of the explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, seen by many as the first European to arrive in Brazil, recorded their sighting of Monte Pascoal which became a European settlement and, subsequently, the municipality of Prado.

John Harold Lozano

John Harold Lozano Prado (born 30 March 1972 in Cali) is a Colombian retired footballer who played mainly as a central midfielder, with good leadership skills and aerial ability.

John Varela

John Edinson Varela Prado (born September 6, 1987 in Cali) is a Colombian footballer who has been unemployed since January 2013.

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

In fact, there are few extant paintings that scholars agree are his; these include View of Saragossa (1646, Prado); Portrait of Queen Mariana in Mourning Dress (1666, National Gallery, London); and The Family of the Painter (c. 1660–1665, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Juan Correa de Vivar

There were also highly admired altarpieces that were taken to the Prado after the ecclesiastical confiscation of 1836 and museum distributed the national them by other pinacotecas like the one of Saragossa or Vigo, churches like San Jerónimo el Real of Madrid or in the deposit of the same Prado.

Juan José Latorre

After the disastrous reduction of the Peruvian navy at the First Naval Battle of Iquique, presidente Prado of Peru ordered Admiral Grau to harass the Chilean shipping lines and to try to disrupt their commerce.

Lepus cornutus

Jan Brueghel the Elder, Virgin and Child Surrounded by Flowers and Fruit, now in the Prado museum; the horned hare can be seen at the bottom right

Luis Mariñas

At 19 he began working in the studios of TVE in Prado del Rey, Madrid, with Victoriano Fernández Assisi, Jesus Alvarez and Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo.

Mambo

"Mambo No. 5", a song originally recorded by Pérez Prado and, more recently, by Lou Bega

Manuel Lima

Among these venues are TED Global, Lift, Ars Electronica, OFFF, Eyeo, Reboot, VizThink, IxDA Interaction, Royal Society of Arts, New York Public Library, TEDx Buenos Aires, Royal College of Art, Open University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Northeastern University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid, Sheffield School of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon.

Marcos Antônio da Silva Gonçalves

Marcos Antônio da Silva Gonçalves, mostly known as Marquinhos (born 17 October 1989 in Prado, Bahia) is a Brazilian football player.

Martín Prado

After the 2012 season, the Braves traded Prado with Randall Delgado, Nick Ahmed, Zeke Spruill and Brandon Drury to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Justin Upton and Chris Johnson.

Medellín Metro

The city's speedy urban growth, especially since the 1960s, has filled the entire Aburrá Valley and made towns touch its borders: Bello, Copacabana, Girardota, Barbosa, Envigado, Itagüí, San Antonio de Prado, La Estrella, Sabaneta and Caldas, among others.

Merry company

He also painted a few large courtly company scenes, including his Garden of Love, (Prado, 1634-5).

Museo del Prado

In 2009, the Prado Museum selected 14 of its most important paintings to be displayed in Google Earth and Google Maps at extremely high resolution, with the largest displayed at 14,000 megapixels.

Nicolás Francés

The cathedral altarpiece paintings documented, along with a picture of the Nativity, allegedly signed with an "N" in a hymnal of the collegiate Basilica of San Isidoro, helped define his style of painting, which combines the clarity and Italian Flemish attention to detail, and attribute some other works, among which the Altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin and Saint Francis (Museo del Prado), from Chapel Farm Esteva of Delights in the vicinity of La Bañeza.

Paratoari

In August 1996 Boston-based explorer Gregory Deyermenjian of The Explorers Club, along with exploration partner, Peru's Paulino Mamani, and Peru's Dante Núñez del Prado, Fernando Neuenschwander, Ignacio Mamani, and Machiguenga "Roberto" and his wife "Grenci" and baby daughter "Reina", was first to make an on-site exploration.

Percival Farquhar

In 1911, Farquhar purchased from the firm Prado, Chaves & Cia control over the Companhia Balneária de Santo Amaro, founded in 1892 which under the direction of Councillor Antonio Prado had been created to organize a tourist beach resort in the place that is today the center of Guarujá.

Prado River

The Prado River is a small river near Jaborandi in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

Roberto Díaz Herrera

At age 15, he studied in Lima, Peru, at the Military School of Leoncio Prado, while also attending classes at the Escuela de Oficiales de la Guardia Civil (Official School of the Civil Guard).

Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

Pastora Soler sang three candidate songs in a televised national final that was held on 3 March 2012 at the Prado del Rey studios in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Community of Madrid.

Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central

The mural was originally created at the request of architect Carlos Obregón Santacilia, and originally was displayed in the Versailles restaurant at the hotel Prado.

The Third of May 1808

In 2009, the Prado selected The Third of May 1808 as one of the museum's fourteen most important paintings, to be displayed in Google Earth at a resolution of 14,000 megapixels.

Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony

Another version of the central panel is found in MASP in São Paulo, Brazil, while a copy by a follower of Bosch can be found in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and another version in the Prado Museum in Madrid.


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