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Brother Lorenzo: He also painted at the :ommand of the Bavarian king a group of city scenes, which are important documents revealing :he appearance of Munich before the many changes }f the mid-19th century.
His brother LORENZO II (b. Munich, Dec. 19, 1793; d. there, March IS, 1869) worked also in lis youth in the court theater, but soon turned lis attention to the art of lithography, and his slates rank among the best of the early Bavarian :xamples. Later Lorenzo devoted himself to jenre painting in oil, faithfully depicting types ind costumes of the enchanting upper Bavarian :ountryside.
The history of church orientation is neatly summed up in San Lorenzo, f.l.m., in Rome. (These letters stand for the Italian fuori le mura, "outside the walls." The earliest churches were built over the graves of the saints to whom they were dedicated, and the cemeteries were outside the old walls of Rome.) The original Church of San Lorenzo (5th century) had its apse to the west. Several centuries later, after the custom had changed, a new church was built with its apse to the east, back to back with the old apse. Eventually both apses were removed, the eastern door closed, and the old church became the eastern sanctuary of the enlarged building.
Family Background. Hayes' mother, Sophia Birchard Hayes, of Dummerston, Vt., was a remarkably self-reliant and cheerful woman, despite many vicissitudes. His father, Rutherford Hayes, Jr., the attractive, virile son of a tavern keeper in Brattleboro, Vt., managed a store in Dummerston. In the hard times after the War of 1812, Hayes' father yielded to "western fever" and in 1817 took his wife, their son Lorenzo, an infant daughter, and his youngest brother-in-law, Sardis Birchard, to Ohio. At Delaware, Ohio, he labored hard as a farmer and a distiller of whiskey, and at first he prospered. Another girl, Fanny, was born there. Then came misfortune-economic depression, the death of his first daughter, and finally, his own death, 10 weeks before the future president was born on Oct. 4, 1822. |
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