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...dining-rooms and salons of the Alfonso XIII are in the rich 17th Century Spanish style, hung with priceless Goya tapestries. Her promenade is finished in arabesques and tiled with Moorish mosaic recalling the Alhambra...
Philadelphia, the Sesquicentennial Exposition City, last week was the recipient of priceless largesses. This time, from the art-crammed Spanish-Citadel cornucopia, flowed some sixty masterpieces of the Spanish Renaissance; Velasquezes; Goyas; Murillos; Fortunys; Goya tapestries; modern paintings (many Sorollas) ; old wrought-iron; ceramics; gossamer Spanish mantillas; delicate rapiers; daggers; rugs; Renaissance furniture...
...three such museums in the world: Louis XIV founded the Chalcographie du Louvre to preserve in etchings the military and festal splendors of his reign; the Regia Calcografia, founded in Rome by Pope Clement XII, contains 15,000 plates; at the Calcografia Nacional, in Madrid, you can buy a Goya* print for a peseta...
...Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), famed Spanish court painter, who lived a life about as regular as that of Benvenuto Cellini. He served for a time with a "quadrilla" of bullfighters and much of his work savors of the bull ring. In recent years he has been much venerated for his bold technique. The plates of Goya's etchings are owned by the Spanish Government, and while the impressions made in Goya's time are rare and expensive, modern prints from the old and worn plates are struck off in cheap profusion...
...Where can you buy a Goya print for a peseta...