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...Another is Francis Bacon’s “Study for a Pope VI”, last of six depictions following Velázquez in an important 1961 series....
...He sought an awkward realism in his Spanish subjects — “Spanish Singer”, “Dead Toreador” — and inflected his portraits with appropriations from Velázquez....
...Meanwhile Mr Corbat defended his salary last year of $24m — nearly 400 times the wage of the bank’s average worker and the widest discrepancy of any of the banks at the hearing, according to Nydia Velázquez...
...The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, by Laura Cumming, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99, 304 pages...
...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...
...Picasso retrofitted Manet who reworked Velázquez....
...So it is, argues Laura Cumming in a vivid, insightful, superbly illustrated study, the first time we encounter a self-portrait....
...Among them was Carlos Arredondo, an immigrant from Costa Rica, whose son, Alexander, was killed in Iraq three years ago. “Being here is part of my grieving process,” he said....
...“Isabella”, a shining portrait of a child – rare in Hockney – perched Velázquez-like on a yellow throne of a chair, is Celia’s granddaughter....
...THE HORSE: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral Merrell ₤29.95, 288 pages From Lascaux cave paintings to Elisabeth Frink via ancient Egypt, 13th-century China, Uccello, Velazquez, Rubens...
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