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...money on lavish fiestas and foreign wars. The King and the Duke shared a mutual devotion to art that ushered in a dynamic period in Spanish painting, now featured in an outstanding new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The exhibit, “El Greco to Velázquez,” will run through July 27, 2008. It showcases dozens of works from the 23 years of the reign of Philip III, a period that was bookended on either side by the careers of renowned Spanish painters El Greco and Diego Vel?...
...heart of the identity problem are the group's commitment to "celestial marriage" - polygamy - and its custom of allowing first cousins to marry. "Your family tree shouldn't be a wreath," says Randy Mankin, editor of the El Dorado Success newspaper, which unearthed the sect's Utah roots four years ago, when its first members, posing as businessmen, arrived in Eldorado under the pretense of building a hunting and game preserve. But the legal notices published in Mankin's paper listing the custody suits brought by the state against the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ...
...El Greco brought with him the practice of making portraits of ordinary people, not just royals, nobles and high churchmen. He was one of the first European painters to probe psychology--although he wouldn't have called it that--in his portraits, and when he turned to devotional subjects, he treated those as portraits too. His Saint James is not the picture of a remote celestial being but of a man, even a contemporary...
...greatest painters in history, would take note. Born in 1599, he started his career painting bodgons, kitchen scenes, like the meticulously detailed An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. This was the homey territory that Dutch painters worked in all the time but where the high-minded El Greco didn't venture. (You can't imagine any of El Greco's crackling holy men doing anything in a kitchen but frightening the cooks.) Like Caravaggio, Velzquez would also use ordinary people as models for figures from the Bible. When he paints The Immaculate Conception, you can tell just by looking...
...flushed them out in six weeks," says Randy Mankin, editor and publisher of the weekly El Dorado Success, circulation 1,200. Sitting in an old office chair amidst an archive of yellowing newspapers and modern computer equipment, he says the massive construction at the Red Cheek site sparked suspicions. When the paper checked Allred's Utah connections, it discovered that the men were in Eldorado to set up a large gated compound for the Fundamentalist Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a religious group that believes in "celestial marriage" - polygamy. The FLDS admitted to town leaders they...