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...Fresh Standout. In two rooms alone there were 19 Rembrandts. including a masterfully calm and triumphant self-portrait and the reverent, mystical Head of Christ. In other rooms, there was a breath-taking assemblage of masterpieces by Velasquez, Goya and El Greco (including his stark, disturbing View of Toledo*) that could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard...
Help from Velasquez. Success only drew Zurbaran inward. He never played in Seville's glittering art world, but withdrew with his wife to the country, painting furiously between moods of deep depression. Among his few friends was Spain's great court painter Velasquez. In later years, when commissions came more slowly, Zurbaran traveled to Madrid for help from Velasquez. The records show that Velasquez did his best, but Zurbaran painted less and less, became commonplace in some of his work. By the time he died in 1664 at the age of 65, Zurbaran was out of favor...
Died. Arthur Stanley Riggs, 73, historian (The Romance of Human Progress, Titian the Magnificent, Velasquez) and longtime (1905-25) traveling lecturer on art, archeology and history; in Washington...
...stuff-designed by Chippendale and other 18th century English carpenters. The old Crown Derby plates she ate off had occasional cracks, and the antique Paul Storr silver was once slobbered in by King George III. The pictures on the walls were horrors-the work of hacks like Rembrandt, Hals, Velasquez and Renoir...
Infanta Margarita, the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery favorite, is one of many paintings that Diego Velasquez, the master realist, made of the prim and lonely-looking 17th century Spanish Princess...