Word: murillos
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...refugees. The last time he had seen them was outside the Prado Museum in Madrid two years ago and he was glad to see they had survived the long flight, first to Valencia, then to Barcelona, and now to France. They were paintings, masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo. taken from the National Museum and the homes of wealthy Madrilenos. Their value was incalculable...
...civil war, Spanish proletarians seized the Madrid palace and handsome park of Alba, part of which was damaged by a Rightist incendiary bomb. Today Alba's most valuable art treasures, such as Goya's portrait of a former Duchess of Alba and canvases by Rubens, Murillo, etc., are hung temporarily in the proletarian museum at Valencia. In Madrid, boys & girls in the peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba's electric waxer...
...great segment of the swallow cloud broke off, swooped down on the Mission. Then began Capistrano's annual battle of birds as the swallows fought to drive interloping swifts and sparrows from their last year's nests. Meantime cameras whirred, radio announcers chattered and Dona Magdalena Murillo, 89, triumphantly croaked her tale of watching the swallows' clocklike arrival and departure every year since childhood...
...important, impressive display of landscapes last week. Reviewing the development of that field of art from the 16th to the 19th Century, they were able to find in their vaults such impressive masterpieces as a St. Jerome in the Wilderness by Paolo Veronese, a murky Spanish scene by Murillo. a rainy day in the English hills by Gainsborough, not to mention Constables, Cromes, and a fine Corot of the best period. The show represented a great deal of money, but critics and visitors neglected it for the corridor and side rooms where were displayed over 200 sketches, landscape drawings, archeological...
...Louis Philippe became "citizen king" of France. Some time between his marriage in 1807 and his flight in 1848. so Bardstown believes, Louis Philippe sent to St. Joseph's Cathedral a Murillo, three van Dycks, two van Eycks, a Rubens...