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Velazquez's life was even, and little is known about its details. It looks quite seamless compared with the struggles of Spain's other archetypal painter, Goya -- a steadily mounting curve of recognition and respect, unmarred by scandal or alienation (although he did father one bastard in Rome). Born in Seville in 1599, the son of a minor Hidalgo family, half- Portuguese, possibly with a trace of Jewish ancestry, Velazquez would always be preoccupied with his social position. (He went to great lengths to qualify as a knight of the Order of Santiago, whose members would not accept him until...
...away from declaring her responses to other and older paintings. Las Mayas, 1958, is a very loose translation of a Goya, turned upside down. Winter Hunt, 1958, in which a fox with pricked ears and pointed muzzle makes a now-you-see-me-now-you-don't appearance among swipes of black and reddish-brown on the bare canvas ground, seems to reflect Winslow Homer's The Fox Hunt. Among the later paintings are versions of a Titian portrait, of a Flight into Egypt by Jacopo Bassano, and of a Manet still life: For E.M., 1981, in which the colors...
...addition, Alexiades, whose ancestors were Greek, served for a year as Miss Greek Orthodox Youth Association (GOYA). She oversaw fundraising measures, cultural events and the GOYA Olympics...
...GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This excellent show rescues the Spanish master from the Romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...
...GOYA AND THE SPIRIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This superb show rescues the Spanish master from the romantic shadows of the Goyaesque and presents him as a man immersed in the liberal currents of his time. Through March...