Word: vel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a Pope on the Pamphili side: Innocent X, whose immortal portrait by Velásquez hangs in the picture gallery. The palace also contains a Claude Lorrain landscape, a Fra Filippo Lippi Annunciation, Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt to see and admire. One of the most interesting pictures is a portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo of Admiral Andrea,* the greatest of the Dorias, a buccaneer of a man and a hero of history...
...cost of living has risen 40% in three years, wages have gone up only about half that much. The rank and file is tired of the cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...
...Philosophers. No technique-detective or brushstroke spy, Author Eliot is instead one of the sun philosophers who value the lights that men and artists live by. Light is the sensuous hero of Sight and Insight: "Velásquez' light is like transparent golden bees swarming the honeyed shadow, while Rogier van der Weyden's is like water over marble . . . even when stealing into Vermeer's darkest interior by a narrow window, light is welcomed as a lover. The far corners whisper hello to light. Instead of humping their backs like angry cats the shadows under the furniture...
...long must your readers submit to the desecration of TIME'S pages by Picasso's pixilated picturizations? Perhaps Picasso cannot be prevented from producing such abominations as his version of Velásquez' Las Meninas [Dec. 22], but you don't have to encourage...
...never able to make anything out of the work of this saiaud Velásquez, that is, until Picasso and his dachshund sacrificed four months of their expensive time to interpret his Las Meninas by repainting it into "emphatic fragments." Thanks for reproducing the result...