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...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Madrid When I was living in Madrid in my early twenties, warm Sunday afternoons were for El Retiro park....
...the master’s “View of Toledo” into his own hilly landscapes....
...Picasso and his peers perceived a kindred individuality not just in the character but also the art of the trained icon painter, whose time in Venice, Rome and Toledo gave rise to a striking, often disturbing...
...He closes with a Tom Stoppard-esque sequence in which Montaigne, Cervantes and El Greco talk art, faith and tolerance in Montaigne’s manor near Bordeaux....
...institute reopened what is now surely the most apt of Old Master shows for our times: the dead Christ of “The Holy Trinity” lurching towards the viewer; the empty ashen city climbing the hill in “View of Toledo...
...“When the issue is Catalonia, it favours the right,” said Kiko Llaneras, the election analyst at Spain’s El País newspaper. “And right now, Catalonia is very much the issue.”...
...On our way back, we had thought we would pass through Madrid and go to Toledo. But we needed time to savour all we had seen....
...Ms Álvarez de Toledo will lead the PP’s election list for Barcelona — a rare case of a non-Catalan running in Catalonia....
...works to banking and wineries, and a net worth of some €2.1bn, the family has spent its cash wisely: the Colección Masaveu is like a Premier League team in which the biggest players are galácticos such as El...
...Fleeing, the last Emir, Boabdil el Chico, famously gazed back at al-Andalus — as Muslims called Spain — and heaved the legendary “Moor’s last sigh”....
...For all that El amor brujo attempts to portray real Andalusian gypsies, it is a peculiar confection....
...the phone from Paris, the former president, who rose to office denouncing the corruption of his now-jailed autocratic predecessor Alberto Fujimori, denied “absolutely, rotundly” to the Lima-based daily El...
...Alejandro Toledo, president from 2001 to 2006, faces charges that he received $20m in illicit funds from Odebrecht, while his successor Ollanta Humala was arrested last year on charges of taking bribes and...
...It’s a view El Greco, who made his home in Toledo, would have appreciated....
...But the linearity and verticality recall El Greco, who died in Toledo in 1614, and the serene spiritual charge — Maino was a Dominican friar — is the opposite of Caravaggio’s doubt and turbulence....
...Because the mountain range has the bureaucratic misfortune to find itself in three different Spanish provinces (Madrid, Ávila and Toledo), as well as in three different Spanish autonomous communities or...
...In an earlier hypothesis, Marañón suggested that El Greco had modelled the apostles on Toledo’s converted Jews....
...El Greco’s studio turned out so many paintings a modern historian called him the “Henry Ford of Toledo”....
...Luis Bárcenas, the disgraced ex-party official at the centre of the affair, told a court in the city of Toledo that the recipient of the cash was Dolores de Cospedal, the PP secretary-general and a close...
...Greco’s Toledo....
...While they are admiring the El Grecos in its cathedral, their partners are meeting the team that will support their weekend’s shooting....
...Like a tiny Toledo it huddles round a crag, bounded on three sides by the Rupit river, and the astonishing thing about it is that there is nothing to mar its beauty....
...The president-elect hails from an ultranationalist family and another brother, Antauro, is in prison for a failed rebellion against former president Alejandro Toledo....
...The mere opening title, “Toledo 2012”, colours in an entire background. El Greco; Spanish Inquisition; Spanish steel....
...Judge Jéssica León granted parole under a law introduced during the term of President Alejandro Toledo, who had been among the hostages in the Japanese ambassador’s residence....
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