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Biography of Tiziano Vecellio
(Unknown - 1576/08/27)
Tiziano Vecellio Venetian painter
He was born in Pieve di Cadore, North of Venice, in the year 1477, though some scholars date its birth in 1487, 1488 and 1490.
School-fellow of Giorgione in the workshop of the Bellini in Venice. Among his early works are the Allendale Nativity (National Gallery, city of Washington and the country concert (towards 1510, Louvre Museum, Paris).) In Padua, performs in 1511 the frescoes of Miracles of san Antonio for the Scuola of the Holy, the three ages of man (to 1513, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh) and divine love and profane love (to 1515, Galleria Borghese, Rome).
He painted for the Duke Alfonso d'Este the Bacchanalia in a room of his palace in Ferrara between 1518 and 1522 (bacchanal and offering to Venus the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and Bacchus and Ariadne, today in the National Gallery, London). Painted the Assumption of the Virgin (1516-1518) on the altar of Santa Maria dei Frari in Venice and the Pesaro Madonna (1519-1526) of the same Temple. Another of his works in this period was death of St. Peter Martyr (1530, destroyed).
Then made his Venus of Urbino (1538-1539, Uffizi, Florence), and the battle of Cadore (c. 1540, in his time in the Doge's Palace in Venice and today known through copies) and in three great paintings of roofs (1543-1544, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.)
In 1516 he was appointed official of the Venetian Republic painter and worked at the courts of Ferrara and Mantua. In the decades of 1530 and 1540 he moved to Bologna to make portraits of the Emperor Charles V and Pope Paul III, and visited Rome by order of the latter, where he met Miguel Ángel. Between 1548 and 1550 consists its permanence in the Court of Carlos V in Augsburg, Germany, which would provide many jobs.
Among his numerous portraits are of gentleman of the glove (c.1520, Louvre Museum, Paris), and the collection that holds the Museum of the Prado of Madrid: Federico Gonzaga (to 1526), the famous self-portrait (between 1560-1566) of the painter to the 80 years, Charles V at the battle of Mühlberg (1548), an equestrian portrait; both Philip II, one young man with armor (1551) and large size, very similar in composition to the Carlos V at Mühlberg; The Empress Isabel of Portugal (about 1548), medium-bodied and of the Marquis del Vasto haranguing his troops.
In the series of mythological paintings made for King Felipe II color becomes more intense as the nymph with the pastor (Kunsthistoriches, Vienna Museum), the rape of Europa (about 1559-1562, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) and the Death of Actaeon (towards 1561, National Gallery, London). One of his best works was Danae receiving Golden rain, and Venus and Adonis in the Decade of 1540.
Also performs a series of religious paintings in which occurs the same progressive dissolution of forms through color and light, emphasize The Annunciation (1560-1565, San Salvador, Venice) and the crowning with thorns (c. 1570, Alte Pinakothek, Munich). In the context of Renaissance art, it has its latest manifestation in piety, made for his own burial chapel.
Titian died in Venice on 27 August 1576.
Biography of Karl Jaspers
(1883/02/23 - 1969/02/20)
Karl Jaspers German philosopher
He was born on February 23, 1883 in Oldenburg. Son of a director of Bank amateur hunting and painting.
At age 18 he began to suffer from bronchiectasis, chronic illness. At the same age, he entered the University of Heidelberg with a conscience to an almost sacred space. He studied law and medicine. Doctorate at the same University, it also it taught lessons of Psychiatry since 19He held the Chair of philosophy since 19He also studied in Munich, Berlin and Göttingen. In 1948 he was Professor of philosophy at Basel, Switzerland.
In its general psychopathology (1913), he denounced the scientific claims of psychotherapy of deterministic. He then edited Psychologie der Weltanschauungen (psychology of the conceptions of the world, 1919). His most prominent work, philosophy (three volumes, 1932), gives his vision of the history of philosophy. Identifies the philosophy with the philosophical thought in itself, not with the conclusions which can be. It employed the term das Umgreifende (can) to refer to the last of the be limits. Another outstanding work is Existenzphilosophie (1938; Philosophy of existence). The term existenz refers to the indefinable experience of freedom and possibility. He exhibited frequently in his writings the dangers posed by modern science, and the political and economic institutions for freedom.
Married to a Jewish woman, he rejected Nazism, so it could not teach during most of the period in which Hitler was in power.
Karl Jaspers died on February 20, 1969 in Basel.
Biography of Luis de Guindos jury
(1960/01/16 - Unknown)
Luis de Guindos jury Spanish Economist
He was born on January 16, 1960 in Madrid.
Degree in economics and business from the Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF) in Madrid with extraordinary Prize limit. It approved the oppositions to technical and commercial and State economist with the number one in his class and, since then, has combined his professional career in public and private entities. Member of AB Asesores, Secretary of the magazine 'Información Comercial Española", vocal Advisor to the Secretary of State for economy and head of the Cabinet technical of the Secretary General of Commerce.
In December 1996, was appointed Director-General of economic policy and competition, and in May 2000 appointed Secretary General of economic policy and competition. He was part of the Board of Directors ofRenfe between 1997 and 2000, of the Instituto de crédito Oficial, from 2000 to 2002, and the State Industrial Holdings Company, in 20Secretary of State for economy in the last Government of José María Aznar (2002-2004). In 2004, was responsible for the economic program that Mariano Rajoy was presented to the general election.
In February 2006, two years before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, of cherry was appointed Executive Chairman of the Bank's business to Spain and Portugal. In November 2008, weeks after the bankruptcy, he was appointed director of the Centre of the Financial Sector which have formed the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the IEE Business School. Director of the Instituto de Empresa since 2010 belongs to the Board of Directors of Endesa with independent external character. Black Cherry was the Coordinator of the book promoted by the FAES Foundation in 2010 that can be considered as the core ideological policy of the People's Party and that moves between two fundamental axes: drastic containment of expenditure in public administrations and reforms in areas such as the labor and the financial sector.
On December 21, 2011 he was appointed Minister of economy and competitiveness by Mariano Rajoy, to be part of the first Government of the PP after the triumph of the popular in the general election on November 20, 2011.
Married and father of two children.
Biography of Lee Iacocca
(1924-10-15 - Unknown)
Lee Iacocca Lido Anthony Iacocca
American industrial
"Search, compare, and if you find anything better, buy it."
Lee Iaccoca
He was born on October 15, 1924 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Son of Nicola Iacocca and Antonietta Perrotta, Italian immigrants who settled in the Pennsylvania steel belt and worked at the restaurant, Yocco completo Hot Dogs.
He graduated from Allentown High School in 1942, and later at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering. After graduating at the University won the Wallace Memorial Fellowship and entered Princeton University, where he taught.
He worked at the Ford Motor Company from 1946 to 1978, where he introduced the concept and developed the Mustang. It began as prototype in 1963, entered in the lines of the plant the following year and since then has not stopped travel on the Assembly lines, becoming one of Ford models - if not the more-than as long it has been in full production. When he was 20 years old, in 1984, he took the record to the Ford T which was produced between 1908 and 1927, although logically without reaching his record of 15 million units produced. Since 1970, he was President of the Ford until his departure in 1978 that was fired from the company by Henry Ford himself, who ostensibly felt jealous of his leadership.
President and CEO of Chrysler Corporation. Between 1978 and 1992, reinforced and promoted the company with large campaigns and systems labour and distribution. For many, and not just in the United States. Lee lacocca is the paradigm of the "self-made man" the man coming from nothing to everything and "is capable of boost victorious from the most desperate situation".
He married Mary McCleary on September 29, 19Had two daughters: Kathryn and Lia. Mary died on May 15, 19He returned to marry Peggy Johnson on April 17, 1986, but in 1987, after 19 months, Iacocca annulled the marriage. Married to Darrien Earle, in 1991 and three years later they divorced.
Sources: Biografieonline.it