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...Spain and today's prosperous, conflicted country. "Spain of the 16th and 17th century, full of darkness and also culture and beauty, is the explanation of many things now," he says. "To understand all that is an interesting exercise. And useful." Pérez-Reverte's latest book, El Pintor de Batallas (The Painter of Battles), a historical tale in the mode of his novels The Dumas Club and The Fencing Master, was published in Spain last February. He is soon to start work on the sixth Alatriste installment, but for now he would rather talk about other people...
...members present so it wouldn't look like the person was facing a court or a tribunal. I tell them, without any adjectives, such as, 'Unfortunately, the test shows ...,' that they have the alteration." He says so far the reactions have been calm, although the team's psychiatrist, Luis Pintor, has been called upon to talk to a couple of people having trouble adapting to the news that they have the mutation. "From the outset, these people have been determined to know, even though there is no treatment," says Molinuevo. Apart from being able to decide whether...
...called Fraga portrait of Philip IV, named for the town where it was painted, in a temporary studio, when the King was leading his armies against the rebellious Catalans in 1640. Velazquez finished it on the march, as it were; though known at court as a pintor flematico, a phlegmatic painter, he whipped it off in a few days. The head of the King, with its long and beautifully blended brushstrokes, looks very considered; less so his magnificent red outfit, which is pure Impressionism 200 years early--the broken touches of the silver brocade and their black shadings...
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