Word: velasquez
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...film artfully goes from low to high key as it takes its color tone from the palettes of the Spanish masters: the somber browns of Murillo for the opening sequence; the shade and shine of Sorolla for the market scenes; El Greco's eerie greens in the chapel; Velasquez' black & white for the banquet; and the rich red & gold of Goya for the arena...
...famed, appealing portrait of a boy, The Torn Hat. Back Baynims were somewhat griped over the absence of Boston's own famed, facile society Portraitist John Singer Sargent. Retorted the Museum's Director George Harold Edgell: "In this collection, Sargent couldn't compete with Rubens, Velasquez and El Greco...
...bayonets jumped from each car. The art treasures of Spain, snatched from Madrid's gun-gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver work, porcelain, tapestries, sculpture, manuscripts. For nearly two and a half years they had lain in crates, ponderously tagging after the defeated Government as it fled from Madrid to Valencia to Barcelona. Armored trucks finally took Spain...
...late William Merritt Chase, instructor in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was born in Indiana and adored Velasquez. His pointed beard and the Bohemian elegance of his clothes assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s, one of his favorite pupils was a spindly, silent young Philadelphian named Charles Sheeler. On seeing many a Sheeler sketch, the master would drop his beribboned eyeglasses and cry, "Don't touch it!", meaning that deliberation was bad for brilliance. If Charles Sheeler has proved anything in the past...
...knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been bombed by insurgent planes, all of its treasures have been saved. They were moved first to the basement, then to the vaults of the Bank of Spain, finally to Valencia. One of the last pictures to leave was Velasquez' greatest picture, the Surrender of Breda, better known as The Lances...