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...the western canon, it seems, that this mighty museum does not own or cannot borrow (70 museums have contributed): Arcimboldo’s berry-eyed, pear-nosed, mushroom-eared vegetal/human face, “Autumn” (1573); Luis...
...The largest of these paintings, the sublime “The Family of Infante Don Luis” (1784), depicts a banished prince shortly before he died in exile....
...This was initially through its signing of “Galactico” star players such as David Beckham and Luis Figo, purchases largely financed by a half-billion euro property deal in which the club’s old training ground...
...The historic Mandarin Oriental Ritz, opened in 1910 several blocks away near the Prado museum, will reopen later this year after a thorough renovation....
...I will miss many things about the Spanish capital: the food, the Prado museum, the elegant Retiro park in the centre and the snow-capped mountains to the north....
...His wife, Beatriz Pumarejo, shared his habits of thrift: at the end of her garden in Barranquilla’s leafy El Prado district, she set up a street stall to sell mangos from the fruit trees in her garden....
...What takes centre stage is the marginalisation of a prince, as Don Luis the man steps out of the public role assigned him by history....
...Painted soon after Velázquez’s arrival in Madrid two years later, the elderly “Luis de Góngora” is comparably monumental....
...Instead, architect Luis Rebelo de Andrade created something more in keeping with the setting – 20ha of soaring pines and large sequoias, strawberry trees and red squirrels....
...“We have a mandate as a government to recover everything that was ours and then privatised during the neoliberal model of the late nineties,” Luis Arce, the country’s finance minister, told the Financial...
...Market scarcity also explains the omissions of Zurbarán and Luis Meléndez....
...Joaquín Sorolla, the sometimes audacious Spanish impressionist whose work is on show now at Madrid’s Prado museum, portrayed his country for the New York headquarters of the Hispanic Society of America nearly...
...Miguel Zugaza, director of the Prado museum in Madrid, was quoted as calling the ceiling a very important work of art for the 21st century and “the best possible projection of Spanish modernity”....
...The arrival next week of both paintings on a visit to Tate Britain, followed by a showing at Madrid’s Prado in 2009, is unprecedented and revealing....
...One is the ascetic and worldly contrasts of the counter-reformation, seen in Luis de Morales’ bluish, cadaverous cleric and the later power-laden inquisitor by Alonso del Arco....
...Ortega y Gasset’s comment on Velazquez echoes from every canvas in the Prado’s exceptional new exhibition, The Spanish Portrait....
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