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...also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velázquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...
...Francisco.) In 1977, when he was 31 and teaching art history and studio practice in his hometown of Vancouver, Wall took his family on a trip to Europe, where he spent a lot of time looking at the old masters in the Prado. His hours with Velázquez, Zurbarán and Goya got him thinking. Was it still possible, in the 20th century, to make representational art with anything like the same power? He happened to be traveling by bus at the time and at each terminal his attention was grabbed by those backlit light boxes that display...
...MILLION J.M.W. Turner Juliet and Her Nurse 1970 $5.5 MILLION Diego Velázquez Portrait of Juan de Pareja 1961 $2.3 MILLION Rembrandt van Rijn Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer
...Like the other Alatriste books, Purity of Blood bristles with adventure and swordplay, but in this one the tone is darker, more political. Real-life figures stir the plot, including the poet Francisco de Quevedo and the Conde de Olivares, the powerful Philip IV Minister painted by Velázquez. The Inquisition, in all its appalling horror, is brought to life, as is Spain's wrenching decline. Laments Iñigo, Alatriste's young sidekick, who tells the story: "It seemed that to be lucid and Spanish would forever be coupled with great bitterness and little hope." The new film...
...same type of drive can be seen in countries like Uruguay and Chile. In the former, President Tabaré Vázquez epitomizes a left respectful of institutions and eager to develop with help from foreign markets. In the historically socially conservative latter, Michelle Bachelet, a socialist single-mother was elected President a month ago. Since 1990, the socialist Concentración coalition has been in power, working hard to come to terms with the political crimes and economic inequalities of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship...