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  Francisco de Toledo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francisco de Toledo (1515 - 1584) Born on July 10, 1515 in the village of Oropesa in Spain.
Toledo became the fifth Viceroy of Peru in 1569.
Toledo was one of the greatest Viceroys to rule in old Inca Empire, but the one thing he did wrong during this time was the execution of Inca Leader Tupac Amaru in 1571.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francisco_de_Toledo   (311 words)

  
 Francisco Toledo by Dore Ashton | Latin American Masters
In the most vital way Toledo is a modern artist: one who works with the principle of free association, and in whom the imagery of countless places and epochs resides.
Toledo's humor is not the humor of the illustrator so much as that of the poet who looks upon the world and notices strange analogies.
It is a persistent Toledo impulse to anthropomorphize, as in the recent paintings of Manta rays, each with its human and terrifyingly uncanny resemblance.
www.latinamericanmasters.com /english/artist_toledo_essay.html   (1600 words)

  
 Historical Text Archive: Articles: Francisco de Toledo, El Virrey de Perú
Francisco de Toledo y Figueroa was born July 10, 1515, in the village of Oropesa in Toledo, Spain.
Francisco was a steward in Philip II's court, and in 1568 was "appointed to restore vice-regal authority to the vast empire of Peru" (Zimmerman, 45-47).
Francisco de Toledo is considered by many to be one of the greatest viceroys of Peru.
historicaltextarchive.com /sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=632   (1355 words)

  
 The Medici Archive Project: News and Notes
Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (c.1503-75) was one of the most distinguished and versatile figures of the mid-sixteenth century, the period of Spain's greatest political and cultural influence in Italy.
Francisco de Toledo, the recipient of Cosimo de' Medici's letter, was a distinguished Spanish statesman and a close associate of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza.
Though Hurtado de Mendoza had spent two years at the University of Siena in his youth, when he reappeared in that city on 20 October 1547, it was as commander of the Spanish forces sent by Charles V to reestablish peace or at least impose order.
www.medici.org /news/dom/dom112000.html   (898 words)

  
 ROJAS ZORRILLA, FRANCISCO DE - LoveToKnow Article on ROJAS ZORRILLA, FRANCISCO DE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rohan certainly was led to believe that his attentions to the queen were welcomed, and that his arrangement by which she received the famous necklace was approved.
It was not untilafter the fall of Delhi that the authority of the British govern-ment was permanently restored.
Spanish dramatist, was born at Toledo; the only circumstance recorded of his life is that he became a knight of Santiago in 1644.
92.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROJAS_ZORRILLA_FRANCISCO_DE.htm   (2517 words)

  
 Francisco de Toledo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Toledo became the fifth (Click link for more info and facts about Viceroy of Peru) Viceroy of Peru in 1569.
Another good thing Toledo did was to diminish the old system of (Click link for more info and facts about mita) mita or forced native labor.
Toledo was one of the greatest Viceroys to rule in old Inca Empire, but the one thing he did wrong during this time was the execution of Inca Leader (Click link for more info and facts about Tupac Amaru) Tupac Amaru in 1571.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/francisco_de_toledo.htm   (363 words)

  
 Francisco de Toledo
Martin de Loyola, with a small force, surprised the prince, who was carried prisoner to Cuzco, and, after a mock trial by the judge, Loarte, was judicially murdered by order of the viceroy.
Toledo was a legislator and statesman of considerable ability and industry, and future viceroys referred to his enactments as authority.
Martin de Loyola, with a small force, surprised the prince, who was carried prisoner to Cuzco, and, after a mock trim by the judge, Loarte, was judicially murdered by order of the viceroy.
www.famousamericans.net /franciscodetoledo   (609 words)

  
 Toledo Elected President of Peru
Toledo's picture, along with those of many other former players, are plastered on the walls of Negoesco's office.
Toledo graduated from USF in 1971 with a degree in economics.
Toledo and his centrist party Peru Posible has pledged to improve social conditions in Peru, particularly in the areas of health, education and nutrition.
www.usfca.edu /media_relations/releases/toledo.html   (510 words)

  
 Holy Toledo
Toledo, Ohio, is known as the “Glass City.” At one time, she was the leading glass manufacturing city in the world and developed one of the largest railroad centers in the country.
Toledo received her name from Washington Irving, author of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” who served in the American legation with Spain in 1832.
Rather, “Holy Toledo” was used as a pejorative meaning “unholy Toledo.” Toledo gained a reputation in the late 1800s to 1930s, as an immoral and corrupt city due to gang violence, illegal bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, and political corruption.
home.earthlink.net /~pamphilia/cgilmor/T-Hall/aholytol.htm   (1030 words)

  
 Art in America: Toledo's Metamorphoses - works of Francisco Toledo - Critical Essay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Toledo donates a large portion of his substantial sales--the artist commands as much as $500,000 for a single work--to his community through a voluntary brand of village taxation called el tequio, thereby repaying a moral debt to Oaxaca, his beloved hometown.
Toledo's work is based in part on the largely misunderstood, shamanistic notion of the nagual, the belief that each human's fate is intertwined with that of an Aztec spirit in animal form.
Toledo reveals a lighter touch in Crafty Rabbit (1988), in which a floppy-eared figure with two penises is swatting at circling wasps.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_2_89/ai_70637314   (1419 words)

  
 Toledo (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toledo, Ohio, United States: the largest city named Toledo.
Francisco de Toledo: 16th-century Spanish viceroy of Peru.
Toledo, a version of the AMD Athlon 64 X2 cpu.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toledo   (112 words)

  
 Francisco Toledo - Mexico - 2005 Honorary Right Livelihood Award Recipient
Francisco Toledo, a Zapotec, was born in 1940 in the Oaxaca region of Mexico.
Toledo's art is imbued with his Mexican heritage of history and mythology.
In 1993 Toledo was instrumental in founding Pro-OAX (the Endorsement for the Defense and Conservation of the Cultural and National Heritage of Oaxaca) dedicated to the protection and promotion of art, culture and the built and natural environment of Oaxaca.
www.rightlivelihood.org /recip/2005/francisco-toledo.htm   (466 words)

  
 Two Contemporary Oaxacan Artists
Toledo is the deep brush of Oaxaca, of myths and legends, of impossible beings.
Francisco Toledo is quite influential among contemporary Mexican artists (Rufino Tamayo has credited him with creating a new school of artistic expression).
We also want the exhibition we are organizing in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca— entitled "Preparations for the Deluge" and whose goal is to invite Oaxacans to contribute to ending the destruction of the state's fauna— be presented in those places where the people depredate the most their natural patrimony.
www.oaxacainfo.com /oaxaca/2-artists.htm   (1839 words)

  
 Tupac Amaru: The Life, Times, and Execution of the Last Inca by James Q. Jacobs
In 1533 Francisco Pizarro, after killing Inca Atahuallpa, marched from Cajamarca, Peru, towards the Incan capitol of Cuzco unopposed by native forces.
Peru's new Governor-General Lope García de Castro accused the Inca of urging uprisings in Chilé and Argentina.
The viceroy, Francisco de Toledo ordered Juan de Soto, his servant and law officer of the court through the crowd to the center of the spectacle.
www.jqjacobs.net /andes/tupac_amaru.html   (3746 words)

  
 USFnews Online
University of San Francisco graduate Alejandro Toledo, once a poor shoeshine boy and the son of an Andean sheepherder, won the presidency of Peru in a close election June 3, defeating former president Alan Garcia.
Toledo is the first president of Indian descent to be elected in Peru, a country with a large indigenous population.
Toledo graduated from USF in 1971 with a degree in economics (his yearbook entry is pictured here).
www.usfca.edu /usfnews/01/06.27.01/fp3.html   (549 words)

  
 Francisco Toledo: Venados (1985.1139) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
By the time he returned to Mexico in 1965, Toledo had been recognized in Europe as a singular artist and celebrated by art critics for his "development of the mythic" and "his sacred sense of life." Settling in Oaxaca, he produced paintings and stone, wood, and wax sculptures, as well as graphics.
Toledo's unique vision is based on a fantastic reality that he finds residing in nature and life.
Toledo created subtle tonal passages in muted earth tones to complement his graceful lines using the technique of aquatint.
www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/11/can/hod_1985.1139.htm   (464 words)

  
 Mexican Embassy to the United Kingdom - Press Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Francisco Toledo is one of the most important artists working in Mexico today.
Toledo's work is celebrated for its highly charged images that draw on human, animal, mineral and spiritual life.
Francisco Toledo has always had a deep interest in recovering elements of his native Zapotec ethnicity and the cultural mixes particular to the Isthmus region.
www.embamex.co.uk /Prensa/Comunicados/2000/gbr0102000a.htm   (422 words)

  
 DAVIDSON GALLERIES - Francisco Toledo
Francisco Toledo is widely regarded as the most important, elusive and controversial artist working in Mexico today.
Toledo is a great patron of the arts in Oaxaca, his native state, where he, as the driving force behind Oaxaca's cultural renaissance, has founded museums and art centers.
Toledo is passionately engaged with the history and religion of the indigenous Mexican peoples.
www.davidsongalleries.com /artists/toledo/toledo.html   (153 words)

  
 Discoverers Web: Orellana
During the civil war he sided with the Pizarros and was Ensign General of a force sent by Francisco Pizarro from Lima in aid of Hernando Pizarro.
In 1540 Gonzalo Pizarro arrived in Quito as governor and was charged by Francisco Pizarro with an expedition to locate the "Land of Cinnamon", thought to be somewhere to the east.
Sufficient funds were raised through the efforts of Cosmo de Chaves, Orellana's stepfather, but the problems were compounded by Orellana's decision to marry a very young and poor girl, Ana de Ayala, whom he intended to take with him (along with her sisters).
www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/orellana.html   (1428 words)

  
 News & Views   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was thus a surprise to come across these works by Toledo, where, along with his characteristic irony, sense of humor, and sharp gaze, new formats are explored while the range of cultural references is expanded.
One last element in Toledo’s work, not less important but not as known in Europe, is its social dimension, deployed in the critical attitude permeating most of his work but also demonstrated in the different social projects he has promoted.
The addition of all these elements at La Caja Negra should drive us to acknowledge in Francisco Toledo one of the very few artists in History who are not only prolific in their topics and techniques, but also capable of approaching the world with a new kind of gaze.
www.artnexus.com /NewsDetail/8621   (616 words)

  
 Francisco de Toledo Biography / Biography of Francisco de Toledo Biography
Francisco de Toledo (1515-1584), the fifth Spanish viceroy of Peru, established his reputation in that office as one of the most talented and energetic administrators of the Spanish Empire in America.
Francisco de Toledo, born in Oropesa in New Castile, was a scion of an illustrious and noble family, Alvarez de Toledo, which was related both to the dukes of Alba and to the royal family of Spain.
Toledo acquired great knowledge of imperial affairs, and his keen judgment and tireless capacity for work earned him appointment as viceroy of Peru.
www.bookrags.com /biography-francisco-de-toledo   (256 words)

  
 The Journey - Day 12 - June 14, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As we drove up the mountain side we were fortunate enough to go to the Papermaking facilities of Francisco Toledo and the smaller “Taller” studio of Papel Oaxaca of Alberto and Ana Laura Valenzuela.
Francisco Toledo is an influential contemporary artist exhibiting internationally.
Toledo’s main concern is the well-being of the people of Oaxaca.
www.kennesaw.edu /visual_arts/STUDY_ABROAD/oaxaca/journey_june14.html   (627 words)

  
 Francisco Toledo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Francisco Toledo 958659257 955663200 London Gran Bretagna Whitechapel Art Gallery http://www.whitechapel.org info@whitechapel.org 958659257.jpg 960415199 o Whitechapel First comprehensive show for 20 years of work by the most important and controversial artist working in Mexico today.
"Toledo is animistic, rational, ferociously sexual, enamoured of the abstractions of nature, capable of staggering brusqueness and timid tenderness..." Carlos Monsiváis Francisco Toledo First comprehensive show for 20 years of work by the most important and controversial artist working in Mexico today
Toledo arrived in Paris aged 19 and was showing in leading galleries throughout Europe and New York within 5 years.
www.undo.net /artinpress/955663200.958659257.html   (573 words)

  
 THE SPANISH DEFENSES OF THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN, THE PACIFIC COAST AND THE CARIBBEAN AFTER THE DRAKE CIRCUMNAVIGATION: ...
Toledo requests the Governor to assist the two ships of the expedition, to send to him any dispatches from it overland by way of Tucuman, and to inform him of any other English ships off the coast of Río de La Plata.
Toledo's sending of Sarmiento de Gamboa to the Strait of Magellan is narrated in Argensola's Conquistas de las Islas Malucas, 1609, [33] pp.
For this purpose the pirate's destruction had to be preceded by an exploration of the passages out of the Pacific, and by a still more careful survey of the routes he might use in order to return to his own country.
www.loc.gov /rr/rarebook/catalog/drake/drake-5-spanishdef.html   (1274 words)

  
 Garcia de Toledo
In 1569 his cousin, Francisco de Toledo, was named viceroy of Peru, and invited the Dominican to accompany him as spiritual adviser.
He was beginning to exercise his ministry in Lima when the viceroy asked him to be his confidential adviser on a tour of the provinces.
On the demand of his family he was sent back to Spain, where he became the spiritual director of St. Teresa, and his frequent conversations with this eminent woman only made him more anxious to devote his life to the service of the Indians.
www.famousamericans.net /garciadetoledo   (783 words)

  
 Francisco Toledo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Francisco Toledo (b 1941) was born in Juchitan, Oaxaca, México.
Toledo's outstanding creativity has been expressed in pottery, sculpture, weaving, graphic arts, and paintings.
Toledo is simultaneously an exceptional artist and a patron and guardian of the arts and the crafts of his state of Oaxaca.
www.adanigallery.com /Toledo/aboutToldedo.html   (159 words)

  
 OAXACAN ART, FIVE STAR HOTEL CASA OAXACA, OAXACA, MEXICO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A very well known artist from Oaxaca is Francisco Toledo, who is not only known in Oaxaca for his art, but also for his beautiful renovations of colonial buildings in the Historic Center of the city.
Francisco Toledo is also the patron of the "Graphic Arts Institute" that has an ample selection of art books, and books on other subjects.
Francisco Toledo was born in 1940 in Juchitán, Oaxaca.
www.casaoaxaca.com /Epages/art.html   (725 words)

  
 Francisco de Toledo
Francisco Toledo: De sexo, muerte y obsesiones bizantinas.(TT: Francisco Toledo, of sex, death and Byzantine obsessions.)(Entrevista) (Siempre!)
Francisco Toledo cosecha elogios en Madrid: "Es el mago de la tribu".(pintor)(TT: Francisco Toledo reaps praise in Madrid: "The magician of the tribe".)(TA: painter) (Proceso)
Se ideó, se trabajó, se dio dinero para la investigación, pero Francisco Toledo decidió aplazar su retrospectiva por falta de obra reciente.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0848975.html   (398 words)

  
 Today's Headlines - Friday, May 28, 1999
The boy, his brothers and their mother were struck by an Amtrak train as they walked across a trestle in the middle of the night.
But friends and family members say Julia Toledo was struggling to juggle her family, a job and an uncertain housing situation.
Toledo's husband had returned to their native Ecuador, and she had filed for divorce in February 1998, a case which was later dropped because Toledo had not been a resident of Bridgeport long enough to file suit.
www.ble.org /pr/archive/headline0528a.html   (2417 words)

  
 IDBAmerica: Detail
This work by Francisco Toledo explores the relation between idiosyncrasy and expression, in a dimension that is cerebral and sensitive.
Carlos Monsiváis has suggested that the atmosphere and characters in Toledo’s world are only mythological to strangers.
Toledo advances his concept that the image, vociferous and piercing, transcends the parochial limits of the anecdote when altered by another context, endowing his own aesthetic with the power of a never-ending metamorphosis that challenges preconceived notions of life and prejudice.
www.iadb.org /idbamerica/viewimage.cfm?thisid=2209&artid=24543&   (96 words)

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