Word: velasquez
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...when she was through. Shortly after his marriage, through his brother-in-law he got a commission to draw cartoons for tapestries. Instead of classical subjects, Goya chose contemporary incidents, then an innovation. The tapestries established his fame, his social position. Goya said he had only three masters: "Rembrandt, Velasquez and Nature." Be cause his work only superficially resembles the first two, critics have generally agreed that the last was his best teacher. No mere portrait painter, he was able at his best to make a face reveal a biography. Of his portrait of Charles IV and his family Theophile...
President Blumenthal will have under his control an institution which last year spent $1,450,000 to maintain itself, owns 2,182 oil paintings including one Hubert van Eyck diptych, 25 Rembrandts, two Velasquez', four El Grecos, two Giovanni Bellinis, six Cézannes, seven Whistlers and the originals of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "The Horse Fair...
...sailed around the coastline of Europe in his own yacht, making forays inland to pick pictures. On his advice the Nelson fund directors have bought lavishly and well. Critics picking their way through echoing marble galleries last week spotted at least half a dozen paintings of world importance: Velasquez' St. Peter; Rubens' Portrait of Old Parr; El Greco's Penitent Magdalene; Goya's Don Ignacio Omulryan y Rourera; Titian's Antoine Perrenot de Granvella; Nicolas Poussin's Triumph of Bacchus...
...Lute Player from Manhattan's Duveen Bros.; Domenico Theotocopuli's (El Greco) The Assumption of the Virgin from Chicago's own Art Institute; Frans Hals's The Merry Lute Player from Mrs. John R. Thompson & John R. Thompson Jr. (Chicago); Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez' Isabella, First Queen of Philip IV of Spain from Philanthropist Max Epstein of Chicago; Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn's Aristotle with the Bust of Homer from Duveen Bros.; Gustave Courbet's La Toilette de, la Mariée from Smith College: Whistler's Portrait...
...great conquistadors. From this first-hand material Poet MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala on the Mexican coast. Here the weary men, learning that all of the ships but one have been destroyed to prevent their deserting, grow mutinous. Cortes, bidding them to go back...