Word: goya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a special relish for the Spanish flavor of their past. To their delight, this year the sentiment is being reciprocated by the loan to San Antonio's HemisFair of 13 masterpieces from Spain. The heavily guarded collection, estimated to be worth $10 million, includes outstanding works by Goya, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco (see color pages). It not only represents the pick of the Prado, but also includes paintings from other Spanish museums. The exhibit is designed to tie in with the fair's theme, "The Confluence of Civilizations," by demonstrating that Spanish culture...
...envision a large collection," explains S.M.U. Director William Jordan, "but rather one of the best." S.M.U. has already acquired some fine Goya engravings, a distinguished Velásquez portrait; other works by artists ranging from Zurbaran to Miró. The loveliest of the lot is Murillo's landscape showing Jacob with Laban's flocks (see color overleaf). As the tale is related in Genesis, Laban, who owned the sheep, told Jacob he would be paid for tending them with any lambs born spotted or speckled, and Jacob's method of inducing speckled progeny was to lay peeled...
...infantry writhe to the horizon and beyond; choruses of cannons shout like narrow mouths of hell in a series of vivid instants that recall the trancelike battle paintings of Uccello. With a knowing artist's eye, the director composes vignettes reminiscent of the harshness and heartbreak of Goya etchings. Again and again, the dolor and grandeur of Russia's convulsive struggle with Napoleon provide a panorama truly worthy of Tolstoy, a writer who did not believe in leaving anything...
...least, thought the Miami Beach Music and Fine Arts Board. In 1963, John Bass, a retired sugar-company executive, offered the city his private collection of 100 works of art, including paintings attributed to Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Rubens, Botticelli, Goya and El Greco. The board urged the city council to call in outside experts to certify the paintings. But the council, loath to look a gift horse in the mouth, voted down the recommendation, spent $160,000 transforming the old public library into the Bass Museum...
...supernatural, physical reality and psychological mystery, rooted itself easily in English soil. Swiss-born John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) emigrated to England at 22 and took up painting with the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals of Shakespearean heroes and fantastic chimeras, such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside and Alpine vistas. Crusty J.M.W. Turner seems to have been the first...