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...The opposition People’s party (PP) accused him on Thursday of creating a power vacuum in order to garner “compassion” from voters.María Jesús Montero, deputy prime minister, said allies were seeking to send...
...Fulminating against Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, PP leader, said: “You do not hijack a nation to put it at the service of Socialist party strategy . . ....
...‘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 snuck a copy of his “Supper at Emmaus” on to the wall of one version, hinting that the maid, like the humble diners who learn Jesus’s divine identity around the table, has absorbed a jolt of revelation...
...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...
...Joaquín Sorolla’s serene swimmer emerges from a luminous sea like a modern “Birth of Venus” in “After the Bath”, and polychrome sculptures of a fervent Mary and Jesus carved by 17th-century nun Andrea de...
...Throughout his career, Picasso sought out the Old Masters, wrestling with the works of Velázquez, Rembrandt and El Greco in his search for an avant-garde language....
...Refined Cantabrian dishes are served at the excellent Amós, led by chef Jesús Sánchez, while Las Brasas de la Castellana offers broader Spanish cuisine....
...of the top 12 is religious in subject — compared with a third of National Gallery paintings — and it too is a comforting harmonious image of refuge: Leonardo’s “Virgin” secluded in a grotto with infants Jesus...
...As for the works of art inside the building, the “majority were not damaged”, Mr Nuñez said....
...“Our officers are being put under a lot of pressure,” said Jesús Narciso Núñez, the colonel in charge of the Civil Guard of Algeciras, which is responsible for patrolling one of the most active areas of...
...These range from Bacon’s raw, urgent, silken screaming Pope (“Study after Velázquez”) and howling animal stand-ins for psychological agony “Dog” and “Study of a Baboon” in the early 1950s, to Freud’s 1990s...
...The offer was turned down: the Spanish ambassador Fernán-Núñez wrote to Wellington: “His Majesty, touched by your delicacy, does not wish to deprive you of that which has come into your possession by means...
...June 2012: The navy claims the arrest of Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar....
...veins on Jesus’ legs transmit their grief with stark immediacy....
...Painted for a hospital church in Seville, it dramatises the mesmerising moment when Jesus urges a severely disabled man to “take up thy bed and walk”....
...Whether or not Velázquez painted any of the polychromed figures that survive from the time is, frustratingly, unknown....
...It still cherishes the Siglo de Oro, the 16th and 17th centuries of Cervantes, Velázquez and imperial conquest in South America....
...As painted by Velázquez, they attain a certain dignity....
...Fittingly, “Jesus among the Doctors” (1542) takes as its theme new ideas superseding the old....
...Jesus was superimposed on a Pepsi ad, with the legend: “This is my blood”; a church had been sculpted out of empty vodka bottles....
...In Christian tradition, this figure mocked Jesus on his way to the cross - a taunter, and a focus for anti-Semitism....
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