Word: velasquezes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Velasquez of Queen Isabella, hitherto unknown, appeared in Manhattan's Chinatown...
...Queen to the Carmelite Convent near Madrid, in recognition of the hospitality of the nuns during a 'disagreement with her unfaithful husband. The nuns, on receiving the portrait, intended subtle flattery to Isabella by painting the robes of the sisterhood over the rich court brocades 'depicted by Velasquez...
...painting then pas.sed through noble families, to an attic, to Father Miguel de los Santos Colart. He removed the nun's robes painted by the Carmelites, and brought the picture to his Chinese Mission in Manhattan. There it was examined by experts, endorsed as a genuine Velasquez, held...
...composition. Touching the non-graphic arts only in the sculpture of Donatello and Michelangelo and the reliefs of Ghiberti, the book scarcely fulfills its inclusive title. Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through. Conspicuously omitted from mention is Andrea del Sarto...
...Wright's argument is cleverly sustained, though at times loose and mystical in diction. Like all large generalizations, it is too much simplified, and some pertinent questions might well be asked. What would Titian, Hals, Vermeer, Velasquez- colorists extraordinary-have said to the charge that color was only an incident to their art? Probably they would have replied in words not dissimilar to those of Ingres, when a visitor to his studio asked: " Does M. Ingres, the celebrated draughtsman, live here...