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...Further south is my favourite: the Fuente del Ángel Caído....
...‘View of the Gardens of the Villa Medici, Rome’ (1630) by Diego Velázquez (Room 11) Elsewhere, and much more joyously, an unexpected work by Velázquez caught my eye....
...His “Baptism of Christ”, teeming with angels, putti and frolicking country folk, sends the eye flitting in a dozen different directions....
...Arteaga, emigrating from Seville to Mexico in 1640, established a tenebrist Baroque school in his adopted home, with violently theatrical compositions exemplified by “St Michael Striking Down the Rebellious Angels...
...Throughout his career, Picasso sought out the Old Masters, wrestling with the works of Velázquez, Rembrandt and El Greco in his search for an avant-garde language....
...She obtains from it a tough, soft shimmer that makes her surfaces as purely memorable as their subjects: the satin gold of the avenging, sword-wielding woman “Angel”; the Velázquez frothy white costume of...
...The babies consider each another as they are watched over by one of the most beautiful, diaphanous angels in art....
...“Angel”, referring to the death of Amaro’s girlfriend, is a beatific-faced figure in rippling gold, gleaming against a muted background, wielding a sword — protector, avenger, an unassailable woman answering...
...“I’m not in favour or against migration, but we have problems too, lots of poverty,” says Chiapas taxi driver Luis Ángel Velázquez. “The earth belongs to everyone, but that’s why there are borders.”...
...Also Velázquez, Delacroix and even modest yet exquisite Chardin. But has any Poussin ever given us the shiver of mystery that is the mark of great art?...
...Angel L....
...Or not until banners showing two of its masterpieces — Piero della Francesca’s “Virgin with Child, Angels and Saints” (also known as “the one with the egg”) and Raphael’s “Marriage of the Virgin” — appeared...
...Ribera may have influenced the young Velázquez; the Dutch Caravaggisti (Matthias Stomer and Dirck van Baburen are among lively examples here) certainly took Caravaggio’s impact north....
...The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, by Laura Cumming, Chatto, RRP£18.99 I read this at one go: a gripping triple narrative spinning from the Spanish Habsburg courts to 19th-century Edinburgh and...
...Everything relates, even the angels flying down. It’s all about light and distance. Why aren’t more paintings now about light and distance?...
...July 2013: Arrest of Zetas cartel chief Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, known as “Z-40”....
...As the Musée D’Orsay’s Manet/Velázquez exhibition testified in 2002, the French artist’s unflinching realism has long been associated with the 17th-century Spanish master....
...Yet the angel’s billowing robe hints at the wilder sentiments which will make the later Annunciation a tornado of smoky, swirling light....
...Has Leonardo committed a kind of blasphemy by converting humans into angels?...
...Wallinger’s “Angel of the South” may be an ultimately augmented version of a miniature toy horse but let’s hope the Eurostar passengers aren’t deep in their Homer or they may find the colossus a bit too...
...The madonna and child are the epitome of demure modesty, the half-naked angel is a coy cousin to the languid Bacchi....
...That stark, concentrated, essentialist effect of subjects silhouetted against dark abstract grounds characterises Spanish portraiture from Velázquez and Goya to Picasso....
...Like the city of angels itself, it is an ill-fitting collection of bits, occasionally wonderful but entirely lacking in coherence and vision....
...As painted by Velázquez, they attain a certain dignity....
...FICTION Angel Gurria-Quintana MOTHER’S MILK by Edward St Aubyn Picador ₤12.99, 288 pages There was an abundance of maternally themed fiction in 2006, but this sequel to St Aubyn’s Some Hope trilogy was...
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