Word: prado
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Even the winning jockey, Edgar Prado, seemed disappointed. "I'm very sorry that happened," he said after his horse, BIRDSTONE, beat Smarty Jones in the Belmont Stakes by a length, "but I had to do my job." Thoroughbred racing fans should be accustomed by now to that sick feeling, with six horses in the past eight years having lost the Triple Crown in the final stretch, but Smarty Jones, the country's sweetheart, was supposed to be different. There was one group, however, that went home happy: the folks who bet on Birdstone, whose odds were...
...country I had never visited. Today may be Independence Day, but this would be my independence summer. And while I have so far enjoyed every moment of my adventures here in Madrid—from making Spanish friends at the dorm where I live, to walking through El Prado and El Palacio Real, to staying out until 7 a.m. as everyone here seems to do. I have also realized, much to my surprise, that the journey is making me appreciate the American culture more than ever before...
...Europe until his death in 1576 aged (he claimed) ninetysomething. "Titian," a banquet of his major works harvested from leading European and American galleries, can be savored at London's National Gallery from Feb. 19 through May 18, and - in slightly different form - at the Prado, Madrid, from June 9 through Sept. 7. Saints and pagan gods were all the rage in the 16th century, and Titian's patrons wanted lavish scenes to decorate their castles and palaces. And what's not to like about the divine lifestyle: a constant round of wild parties, battles, adventures and seductions. The stories...
Going through "Goya: Images of Women," the exhibition presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington by the leading American Goya scholar Janis Tomlinson--it is a somewhat truncated version of a large show that was seen at the Prado in Madrid last winter--one realizes what depth and intensity Goya brought to seeing his world. The late 18th and early 19th century in Europe had portraitists who could extract gripping narratives of sympathy and experience from the individual human face and body. Delacroix, Ingres, David--it is a long and glorious list. But the most fascinating of them...
...sense of the power of women--the civilian version, so to speak, of the dreadful potency of the witches and the toothless hags in the "Black Paintings" and of the evil old celestinas or procuresses who accompany his beautiful hookers on balconies or the pavements of the Paseo del Prado...