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...stout pine coffin containing the body of Miguel Sotomayor Urbina was brought out of the family's wooden shack and carried through the dusty streets of Managua's Villa Cuba neighborhood. There was no honor guard and no red-and- black flag draped over the coffin, as there usually is for young conscripts killed in action against the U.S.-backed contras. And the cortege, passing beneath flowering cassia trees, headed not for the military cemetery but for an overgrown burial ground on the banks of a rubbish-strewn gully. "He hadn't wanted to go, and dodged the draft...
Fernando Compeán Martínez Sotomayor...
Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, late director of Madrid's Prado: "Restoration is necessary. You have to do it with great care, but you have to do it. We can be proud of the work Spanish restorers do, but in most other European museums the work is not so good. For instance, I have been told of a Velasquez portrait of Philip IV in London's National Gallery which after restoration is a very bad picture. We have another Velasquez portrait of the same king, which originally was not so good as the one in London. Now ours...
Died. Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, 84, Spanish portrait painter (among his subjects: ex-King Alphonso XIII, Portugal's Dictator Salazar), who headed the famed Prado Museum from 1921 to 1936, was succeeded by Pablo Picasso during the civil war, regained the post after Franco's victory; of a heart attack; in Madrid...
...Long ranked as Europe's darkest museum, the Prado has begun the long-overdue installation of a scientific scheme of lighting (mixture of blue, yellow and rose neon to approximate sunlight). Predicted Prado Director Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor: "By next year I think we will be able to say, 'Now the whole museum is illuminated...