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...Democrat Nydia Velázquez yelled “bye-bye” after Lawler, one of the vulnerable New York Republicans, voted for Johnson. “I thought it was comical,” Lawler told the Financial Times....
...His colleague, Christopher Apostle, says of this work in particular, “Velázquez took inspiration from Rubens and created the Baroque language of Spain.”...
...And right at its heart is Bless Hotel Madrid, in a 19th-century building (it was called the Velázquez in a former incarnation, my taxi driver told me) that now welcomes in the passing world with huge street-level...
...Today, along with the nearby Palacio de Velázquez and Casa de Vacas, it hosts art exhibitions (in conjunction with the Reina Sofia museum)....
...A significant moment was seeing the Velázquez portrait of Juan de Pareja (1650) as an adolescent. “I had an epiphany,” he says....
...And in Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” (1656), the viewer is placed in the shoes of the king and queen of Spain, visible in a mirror, while they are being painted by Velázquez himself, thereby blowing the mind...
...‘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....
...Velázquez, though well known in Spain, arrived in Rome as a provincial celebrity and left as a megastar....
...The flattering eye that Velázquez trained on royalty, the opulence of Bronzino’s princely costumes, the lush brushwork that Sargent bestowed on moneyed arrivistes — he could use it all....
...It was an extraordinary luxury to spend time alone with Bosch, Titian, Velázquez or Goya....
..., especially about culture and its objects, the things people surrounded themselves with and the histories that accompanied them: the golden rococo surfaces of Versailles, old dynasties as portrayed by Velázquez...
...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”....
...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...
...And while Xu’s historical references include Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Velázquez, she also draws upon their less-celebrated female counterparts, from Italian baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi to Swiss...
...Twelve of the gallery’s most treasured paintings, including Constable’s The Hay Wain and Velázquez’s The Rokeby Venus (assuming it can be repaired after it was recently targeted by Just Stop Oil), will journey...
...The hotel is also just opposite El Retiro park — perfect for a morning stroll around the lake — and the Prado museum, so you can pop in to see works by Velázquez or Goya during your stay, or do some shopping...
...He sought an awkward realism in his Spanish subjects — “Spanish Singer”, “Dead Toreador” — and inflected his portraits with appropriations from Velázquez....
...Another is Francis Bacon’s “Study for a Pope VI”, last of six depictions following Velázquez in an important 1961 series....
...Stiffly determined aristocrats — Velázquez’s moustache-curling “Count-Duke of Olivares”, Goya’s wigged, powdered “Manuel Lapeña” — tower above us, while a laughing “Lucienne Bréval as Carmen” shines in the...
...Velázquez was expected to run as a ruling party candidate in the polls and Cartes retains significant influence over national politics and business....
...She invokes classics of self-admiration, such as Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”, where the archetype of female beauty reclines with her derrière to the viewer, entranced by her own reflection — or possibly fussing...
...Several exhibitions safely pair Picasso with past masters: Goya, Velázquez, El Greco....
...He belongs to a tiny group of pre-Impressionists (Velázquez, Rembrandt) for whom paint was itself a subject, sometimes fantastically abstracted — the liquid flow of threads in “The Lacemaker”; decorative...
...but the subjects are subverted, so that Manet’s Olympia becomes a naked black man, with Olympia’s black slave turned into a little privileged white boy, while Saskia on the Rocking Horse (1981), a nod to Velázquez...
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