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...Next door is Inigo Jones’s 17th-century Banqueting House, with its ceiling painted by Rubens. Just outside, Charles I was executed for treason....
...Rubens and His Legacy, Royal Academy, London Only two major works by the Flemish baroque master here — but both spectacular enough to justify a visit: “The Garden of Love”, the Prado’s voluptuous vision...
...lineage: Van Dyck’s bold elegance, seen here in the National Gallery’s comic “Drunken Silenus” and Washington’s dashing “A Genoese Noblewoman and Her Son”, and thus to the swashbuckling portraiture of Thomas Lawrence...
...There are knockout masterpieces that somehow have eluded me; above all, a moving Jacob Lawrence series of small war paintings, made when he came back from the battle in 1946....
...No wonder he is the painter’s painter; the touchstone for Rubens, Velázquez and Delacroix. (The latter said that all great painters were Titian’s “flesh and blood”.)...
...… Martin Amis Author of ‘The Zone of Interest’ (Cape/Knopf) Lawrence Wright has become a formidable technician of synthesis and narrative....
...And there is no shortage of poetry and prose, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Oscar Wilde, DH Lawrence and Ted Hughes....
..., fluid, spontaneous yet majestic, such depictions introduced the baroque to England, yet their restrained elegance shows how native moderation tempered the bombastic extravagance of Van Dyck’s teacher Rubens...
...Most of the expected artists are there: no Velásquez, Titian, Lawrence or Tiepolo perhaps, but choices must be made....
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