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When Philip III ascended to the Spanish throne in 1598, he was 19 years old and uninterested in the responsibilities of a monarch. His friend the Duke of Lerma–the court’s preeminent tastemaker as well as the most important non-royal art collector in Europe–took over matters of state, while Philip squandered vast sums of money on lavish fiestas and foreign wars. The King and the Duke shared a mutual devotion to art that ushered in a dynamic period in Spanish painting, now featured in an outstanding new exhibit...
...them as they galloped. Felicity could feel the sweat trickling down into her decolletage as she rode, and the wind tumbled her hair into glorious disarray. The half-tamed stallion coursed beneath her. “Onward, Zalathal!” she urged, striking the crop against the Spanish steed’s rippling rump...
...fact, Benedict did court American Hispanics during the trip, a wise move given that they will make up the majority of U.S. Catholics at some point in the next few decades. But once again, his blandishments were symbolic - he spoke a fair amount of Spanish - rather than polemical. And as the trip drew to a close and the excitement over his sex-scandal responses quieted, it became increasingly clear that although this supposedly "interim" Pope will never be, as Bono once called John Paul II, the rock-'n'-roll style "front man" for his church, he has grown fully into...
...palette, flickering brushwork and twisted Mannerist figuration were perfectly suited to Spain's militant piety and the strain of Catholic mysticism spreading there through the writings of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross. A cooler, more classicizing artist would not have answered so well to the emerging Spanish taste for religious ecstasy...
...American members, Mariachi Veritas is “a way to share our culture with the other members of the group and the Harvard community,” according to David Garcia ’09, who plays the guitarron, a Mexican bass. “We sing in Spanish, even though we don’t understand what we’re singing,” Yapp says. But according to Viramontes, understanding the language is secondary. “The music communicates what the song it trying to say,” she says. Established in 2001, Mariachi...