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Manuel Tolsá
Spanish architect and first director of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manuel Vicente Tolsá Sarrión (Enguera, Valencia, Spain, May 4, 1757 – Mexico City, December 24, 1816) was a prolific Neoclassical architect and sculptor in Spain and Mexico. He served as the first director of the Academy of San Carlos.
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Tolsá and the second or maternal family name is Sarrión.
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