Word: goya
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...hotel room of her millionaire husband and airily announced that she was going out to buy an El Greco. With her was Mary Cassatt, the noted American impressionist, who was helping the Have meyers build their great art collection. Said Sugar Tycoon Havemeyer: "You had better add a Goya while you are about it." Replied Painter Cassatt: "Perhaps we may. Who knows?" And with that, the two ladies swept out of the room and off to their mission...
Scotland Yard put all harbors and airports on the alert, but it did so with a suggestion of quiet desperation. After all, Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, stolen from the National Gallery eleven months ago, has yet to be found...
...landscapes, and "some very terrible murals." It was not until World War II, when he withdrew to his studio to paint "a war I did not see but a war I felt," that he hit his current stride. With the technique of the Spanish masters and the memory of Goya's Disasters of War, he turned out a series in which unearthly creatures marched and attacked in an eerie portrayal of all wars. It was a remarkable series, and his most ambitious, until he tackled the tragedy of the Armada...
...away from the plaza, she always seemed to him to be the better twin of boredom. When he retired in 1935, he was king of the world's matadors, more than a millionaire, a hero in his native Spain, spoken of in the same breath with Cervantes and Goya. But life grew dull as it grew safer. When a friend told him he had no choice but to die tragically, his answer held no other hope. "I'll see what I can do," Belmonte said...
...smooth and porous surface with grease or crayon, dampened the stone with water, and then took his impression off on paper. The process, called lithography (literally, writing on stone), was capable of such beautiful reproductions that it was eagerly adopted by painters, among them Degas. Toulouse-Lautrec and Goya, to make cheap but faithful replicas of their original work. Except in artists' circles, Senefelder's stones have long since disappeared. But in print shops, those gloomy caverns of the publishing world where paper is imprinted with ink, the process he invented 166 years ago is enjoying...