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...Velázquez’s nude “The Rokeby Venus” (1647-51) visits Liverpool for a display “challenging traditional readings by setting it alongside artworks by women and non-binary artists”....
...Before I knew it I was floating through the gossamer worlds of Claude and Poussin, past swashbuckling Velázquez portraits and Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro showstoppers....
...Melissa Thompson gazes from the canvas, her hands extended loosely over the arms of an upholstered armchair in a pose redolent of Velázquez’s famous portrait of Pope Innocent X....
...Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 Velazquez was a professional dancer from Puerto Rico, according to Orlando Weekly, a local weekly alternative newspaper....
...by tight collar and tie and confined in a cage; and the famous “Head VI”, a screaming Pope with phallic gold tassel mockingly swinging above his nose — Bacon’s first composition to converge imagery from Velázquez...
...Sherrie Levine led the appropriationist charge, reshooting the photographs of Edward Weston and Walker Evans and claiming credit for the result, regardless of what copyright law might have to say....
...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...
...Henrietta Edwards, a courtier, stepped in as the model when it came for the diadem to be painted. The following year he painted Henrietta’s portrait, “Woman with Eyes Closed”....
...Edward Burra, in Spain at the outbreak of hostilities – “it was terrifying: strikes, churches on fire and pent-up hatred everywhere” – developed as a result a dark, politically ambivalent vision....
...In 1914, Mary Richardson tore holes in Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”, sparking a wave of suffragette slashing: Sargent’s portrait of Henry James was attacked with a hatchet, followed by a Clausen, five Bellinis...
...“My father [Edward, Earl of Leicester], in his 30-year tenure of running Holkham, started the process of returning all the paintings to their original hang.”...
...One of many splendid works it sold is Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”, now in London’s National Gallery. The firm has been running down stock, and the remainder will be disposed of gradually....
...His greys are as fine as Velázquez and his reds as fine as Rubens. As a painter I do claim he has never been surpassed.”...
...Over-idealised forms are not interesting: think of the angels and damsels that litter the works of 19th-century painter Edward Burne-Jones, and which all look exactly the same....
...Artists as diverse as Edward Burra, Wyndham Lewis and Henry Moore were so profoundly shocked by Spain’s predicament that they produced watercolours, paintings and sculpture that retain their power today....
...The Doubtful GuestTraverse Theatre Hoipolloi theatre company dramatises Edward Gorey’s darkly comic tale of a bizarre house guest – “something standing on top of an urn/Whose peculiar appearance gave them...
...Edward Wallace’s “Unresolved Paintings” use not pigment but coloured, striped Lycra, sculpted into rising and falling curves, like the human body. Or like landscape....
...incorporating into this monstrous hybrid not only Velázquez but all the implications of the Supreme Pontiff on his throne.”...
...THE HORSE: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral Merrell ₤29.95, 288 pages From Lascaux cave paintings to Elisabeth Frink via ancient Egypt, 13th-century China, Uccello, Velazquez, Rubens...
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