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Primitives of the Catalonian and Aragonese Schools were there, along with excellent examples of 15th and 16th Century anonymous religious paintings. But the reputation of Spain as an art centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...
Calling on other museums, public-spirited dealers and generous owners, the Brooklyn Museum was able to assemble 16 El Grecos, including the Worcester Art Museum's Magdalen, and the Metropolitan's View of Toledo. Three Velazquez' were borrowed: a self-portrait belonging to Jules S. Bache, a St. Peter from the Nelson Gallery of Kansas City and Don Balthazar Carlos and his Dwarf from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...
...called attention to many an overgrown but inspiring ruin. He wrote the first history of painting of the 19th Century, started an arts & crafts shop, founded a literary journal (Pan), made European collectors aware of Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne. He went to Spain to bend the knee to Velazquez, returned a blazing disciple of El Greco. Though he is a frequent contributor to International Studio and Cahier d'Art, few of his more than 40 books have been translated. Some of them: Spanish Journey, Pyramid and Temple, Degas, Cezanne, Dostoevsky...
...Shepherds by Mantegna; three historic suits of armor; two belonging to Queen Elizabeth's friends, the Earls of Pembroke and Cumberland, the third to Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France; the finest sword the Museum has ever owned, that of Ambrosio di Spinola, the General of Velazquez's famed Surrender of Breda (The Lances); and the only known 14th Century tapestry depicting King Arthur...
...Museum in Amsterdam, Rembrandt's Night Watch had a hole torn in it. Last year in the same museum a little Dutchman axed Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson (TIME, March 2, 1931). On March 10, 1914 May Richardson, famed suffraget, pulled a hatchet from her muff and slashed Velazquez's Venus and Cupid in London's National Gallery as a protest against the jailing of Emmeline Pankhurst. Until 1845 the beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, shattered it into pieces which were painstakingly fastened...