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...This grand, fizzing, full show — Velázquez and Sorolla, polychrome Madonnas, fanciful mapmakers, medieval Alhambra silks — recalled the glory days in the 2000s-10s when the RA’s vast genre-crossing exhibitions...
...He sought an awkward realism in his Spanish subjects — “Spanish Singer”, “Dead Toreador” — and inflected his portraits with appropriations from Velázquez....
...For the likes of Leticia Velázquez, it’s a conundrum....
...Propped on rue Villejust’s piano was Edgar Allan Poe’s musical poem “The Raven”, illustrated by Manet, recounting the bird’s mysterious visit to a mad lover....
...From €200; Calle de Velázquez 48, 28001 Madrid (+3491-432 0989; www.guaimaro.es). A recent “find” is the boutique hotel Fundació l’Olivar in Ventalló, Spain....
...I really like Velázquez but the positions are up and down: Velázquez looks down [as if to say], ‘You’re just shit.’...
...Later in the month police arrest Edgar Valdéz Villarreal, better known as “The Barbie” and considered the new head of the Beltrán Leyva cartel....
...“Old Masters got different results and I want to know how they did it . . . this is the process of Rubens and Titian, Velázquez, Hals and the rest.”...
...The work is not in the catalogue raisonné of Velázquez, no doubt because it was completely unknown, but the leading Velázquez specialist Dr Peter Cherry has thrown his authoritative weight behind the attribution...
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