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...their Olympics year. Out of the eight events surveyed, stocks rose in six countries; the best performer was South Korea, where the gain was 73%. But stocks fell in two countries: by 3.75% in the U.S. in 1984, the year of the Los Angeles Games, and by 10% in Spain in 1992, the Barcelona Games year...
Philip III of Spain is one of history's also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velázquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...thunderclap that is the first gallery of "El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III," which has just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. There are five fierce El Grecos in that room, all humming in his high, mad register. Spain may have been adrift, but its art was advancing nicely--and advancing into territory where you might not have expected Spanish...
...wonderful exhibition, co-curated by Ronni Baer of the Boston MFA and Sarah Schroth of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, one of the show's plain lessons is that during Philip's reign, Spanish painters perfected the means of bringing recognizable human beings into their art. Spain may have been a center of Catholic piety, its eyes always fastened on heaven, but its paintings were full of vital, supple people made of real flesh and blood...
...largest trove of works by Goya, only a fifth of the pieces in this exhibition come from its collection. All were completed between 1794 and 1820, the period that begins with Goya's recovery from a grave illness that left him deaf, and traverses the bloody years of Spain's war of independence, which he witnessed personally...