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...restored some 500 works for fellow bluebloods. She learned how to smooth over chipped spots ("like filling a tooth"), repaint damaged hands and noses, replace frayed lining, spruce up dull paint with a coat of bright varnish. As she became more skilled, she repaired masterpieces by Rubens, Tiepolo and Velasquez. Once, working on a dark, somber painting by the 16th century Italian Jacopo Palma, she found a whole covey of saints and angels hiding under the grime. Another time, she was called in to restore an unusual Lucas Cranach; instead of one of the 16th century master...
Zurbaran was best at such stone-cold, stone-solid figure pieces as the Monk. A somber ascetic, the 17th Century Spaniard never strayed from his native land or from his passionately simple, sculptural style. Like Velasquez, he was a realist who painted only from models, but while Velasquez was concerned chiefly with color, Zurbaran cared only for form...
...original bloodshed, 2) the victim's agony before death, 3) the victim's actual death and 4) the re-establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored up and gunned down Jose Aguilar, a chief of the Epinayu (Weasel) tribe...
...dirty shirts and bright loincloths knotted in front, met on the broiling plain. The aggrieved Weasels demanded 4,000 goats for Aguilar's death, plus war reparations. The Blackbirds balked at so costly a fine. Both factions then agreed to stage a man-to-man combat between Murderer Velasquez and a Weasel named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse came out of the fight wounded and sulking, and threatened to commit suicide to distress the Blackbirds. At this impasse, last week the Guajiros appealed to the Venezuelan government to negotiate a peace. Pending arbitration, an uneasy truce settled over the Guajira...
...greatest prelate-painter of all, Engelman thinks, was Velasquez. His best example of prelate-work: portrait of Pope Innocent...