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...Another left, and I’d be in the Italian Renaissance, or the German....
...Another is Francis Bacon’s “Study for a Pope VI”, last of six depictions following Velázquez in an important 1961 series....
...Europe had the same allegiance of genius to power: Titian and Velázquez painted the Habsburgs, Goya the Bourbons....
...When explaining himself yesterday, Bettel said he wrote the paper “to the best of my abilities” — the exact wording zu Guttenberg used 10 years ago, as Luxembourg reporter Diego Velazquez pointed out.https...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is the 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez....
...Lely and Kneller were German-born and Dutch-trained....
...Among his pantheon are Rembrandt, Velázquez, Monet and Van Gogh (“deep colour straight out of the tube”), but “there’s always been Turner”....
...Tonally speaking, this isn’t the sort of book that, like something by the German writer WG Sebald, can imply great weight and melancholy through what it leaves unsaid....
...It’s a black box,” says Mr Velázquez of Acerinox....
...First, Germany’s finance ministry was forced to deny it was working on a rescue after the German lender’s share price slumped to a three-decade low....
...Aping Velázquez’s sumptuous surfaces and grandeur of composition in the velvety purple 1950s popes in “Figure Sitting” and “Study for a Portrait”, or deconstructing Picasso’s deconstructions, and throwing...
...Founded by the Medici and open to the public since 1765, Florence’s Galleria degli Uffizi now has its first foreign director, German art historian Eike Schmidt....
...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...
...When German officers, discovering “Guernica” in Picasso’s studio in occupied Paris, asked “Did you do this?”, the artist is famously supposed to have replied: “No, you did.”...
...By November, the first German spy had been executed in the Tower of London....
...In 1762, a young German princess deposed her incompetent husband Tsar Peter III, became Empress of Russia and set about making her adopted country part of Europe....
...However, his long immersion in the history of European art led him to engage with earlier masters: Netherlandish painters, Titian, Grünewald, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Hals, Watteau, Ingres, Constable, and so...
...“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.”...
...For 500 years, men shaped art’s possibilities by painting women: Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa”, Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, Velazquez’ Infanta and her maids in “Las Meninas”, Manet’s “Olympia”, Picasso’s “Demoiselles...
...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...
...Brazilians work for US brands (Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein), and Germans at Italian brands (Tomas Maier at Bottega Veneta)....
...Graham-Dixon reckons the subtle handling anticipates Velázquez, “but it is not hard to see why some of the artist’s contemporaries would have been troubled....
...Here, announced the German expressionists, was an artist who felt life’s “mystical inner construction, which is the problem of our generation”....
...First, Germany never experienced a golden age of painting comparable to the Italian Renaissance, the Spain of Velázquez and Goya, the Low Countries of Van Eyck and Rembrandt, or France from the 18th century...
...This exhibition, which has made stops at London’s Tate Britain and Madrid’s Museo del Prado, features 65 iconic pieces, including Bacon’s studies based on Velázquez’s portraits of Pope Innocent X, his tour...
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