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...When John Quinn, the renowned Los Angeles-based lawyer and art collector, joins our Zoom call, I’m surprised to find he’s in his car. Has he been working from there?...
...Today, along with the nearby Palacio de Velázquez and Casa de Vacas, it hosts art exhibitions (in conjunction with the Reina Sofia museum)....
...In 1824, Parliament purchased 38 pictures from businessman John Julius Angerstein’s estate, exhibited in his Pall Mall home....
...When portraiture finally made a comeback with Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin and Richard Phillips, Hendricks should have been among the leading lights. But he wasn’t....
...New York-based Will St John, whose work was recently shown in London by Saatchi Yates, paints “Brooklyn bohemians” – from drag queens to trans models – in the formal style of Italian classical realism....
...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...
...Several exhibitions safely pair Picasso with past masters: Goya, Velázquez, El Greco....
...Maro Gorky, A Life Painting is at Long & Ryle, 4 John Islip St, London SW1, from 19 April to 12 May; longandryle.com...
...John Baldessari, a godfather of conceptual art, in 1970 set fire to all his work from the previous decade or more, baked the ashes into cookie dough and displayed the results as “The Cremation Project” at...
...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....
...Europe had the same allegiance of genius to power: Titian and Velázquez painted the Habsburgs, Goya the Bourbons....
...British architect John Pawson and French designer François Champsaur are behind the hotel’s contemporary, sophisticated look, with impressive attention to detail....
...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 and Saint John...
...Before I knew it I was floating through the gossamer worlds of Claude and Poussin, past swashbuckling Velázquez portraits and Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro showstoppers....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...It also established an iconography of power, from Velázquez’s pope to Francis Bacon’s. Raphael is an inherently secular artist, engrossed in the world, at ease with the rulers of his day....
...Among his pantheon are Rembrandt, Velázquez, Monet and Van Gogh (“deep colour straight out of the tube”), but “there’s always been Turner”....
...In his blue bedchamber, lanky, pale, babyfaced Walpole himself stares out, in Restoration-era fancy costume, from John Eccardt’s portrait modelled on a Van Dyck painting....
...The presiding artistic spirits are of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who “wrote that a library is a labyrinth”, and Velázquez, whose paintings contain other paintings within them, which are in turn...
...And instead of sex, drugs and disco, John Leguizamo here aims to give us the truth about 1492 and all that....
...Velázquez’s cool, forthright, austerely elegant “Don Pedro de Barberana” (1633) masterfully evokes Madrid’s severe, formal Habsburg milieu....
...“Like most monarchs,” he remarked, “Velázquez had jesters and dwarfs to tell him the truth in coded style.”...
...The upper floors house masterpieces from the Renaissance to the mid-20th century, by way of Caravaggio, Chardin, Gainsborough, Goya, Velázquez, Vermeer, Zoffany and Zurbarán and many of the major Impressionists...
...A binary biography, it traces Velázquez’s life through that of the 19th-century bookseller John Snare, who had a monomaniacal relationship with a supposed Velázquez portrait of King Charles I of England....
...works, you enter a brilliant display of the deformed 1960s-80s portraits on shrill coloured grounds: bright yellow for three distorted heads of Henrietta Moraes, shocking pink overwhelming a curled up John...
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