Francisco de Quevedo
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Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival Luis de Góngora, Quev
Francisco de Quevedo, Juan van der Hamen, 17th century (Instituto Valencia de Don Juan)
Portrait of Quevedo (c. 1618) by Francisco Pacheco.
Casa Quevedo in Torre de Juan Abad.
Convent of San Marcos in León.
Pince-nez
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Pince-nez is a style of glasses, popular in the late-19th and early-p20th centuries. The lenses are supported without earpieces, in a frame pinching the bridge of the nose. The name "pince-nez" comes
Francisco de Quevedo
…dignitaries and nobility at the royal court. Intellectually gifted, Quevedo was physically handicapped with a club foot, and myopia. Since he always wore pince-nez, his name in the plural, quevedos, came to mean "pince-nez" in the Spanish language. Orphaned by the age of six, he was able to attend the Imperial…
Anton Chekhov with pince-nez, 1903
C-bridge pince-nez spectacles, cased, England, between 1875 and 1925
Rimless astig pince-nez
Finger-piece hard bridge pince-nez