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...‘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....
...Europe had the same allegiance of genius to power: Titian and Velázquez painted the Habsburgs, Goya the Bourbons....
...Both wearing Prada’s signature Celeste Blue, seated in Ristorante Torre at the Fondazione Prada in Milan with sweeping views over the city, the pair converse intensely about the role of art in society, the...
...Melissa Thompson gazes from the canvas, her hands extended loosely over the arms of an upholstered armchair in a pose redolent of Velázquez’s famous portrait of Pope Innocent X....
...But I preferred La Habanera, a former colonial mansion where I could bag a rocking chair on the balustraded terrace and watch the comings and goings along the potholed street, like an exile from a Norman...
...de Collserola, also designed by Norman Foster....
...Among his pantheon are Rembrandt, Velázquez, Monet and Van Gogh (“deep colour straight out of the tube”), but “there’s always been Turner”....
...Incoming Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he plans to scrap a $13bn Norman Foster-designed Mexico City airport after a “people’s poll” deemed it undesirable, stirring investor unease and...
...The £600,000 Mining Art Gallery, which will open next summer near an art gallery featuring Spanish old masters by El Greco and Velázquez, is the latest move by Jonathan Ruffer, the fund manager, to regenerate...
...Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 Velazquez was a professional dancer from Puerto Rico, according to Orlando Weekly, a local weekly alternative newspaper....
...The donors include local billionaires Irma and Norman Braman, who are driving the project....
...You can go Hegel, Marx, [Slavoj] Zizek or Velázquez, Manet, Warhol. It’s about a philosophy of seeing.”...
...Former comic actor Jimmy Morales won a landslide victory in Guatemala’s presidential election run-off on Sunday, racking up more than twice as many votes as former first lady Sandra Torres....
...Also likely to drive interest is the opening of Explora Valle Sagrado, a sister property to Explora Patagonia, the hotel that opened in 1993 and did much to popularise the Torres del Paine national park....
.... ——————————————- RUSSELL NORMAN Restaurateur, Polpo, London New York I have been a frequent visitor to New York for the past 15 years and although I don’t necessarily seek out new places to eat, they...
...The Normans raised the level of the roof and added side chapels. The Spanish put in a new ceiling of chestnut wood....
...In 1672 the Sevillian poet-priest Fernando de la Torre Farfán declared that Murillo had become better known in every corner of Europe than in Spain....
...One notable early example was Torres’ Catalan Viña Sol and it’s still going strong....
...Bernini, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Velázquez – “that viscerality” – are among his favourite Old Masters....
...Vittorio Muolo, together with his father and brother, owns Masseria Torre Maizza (and Masseria Torre Coccaro, its slightly scruffier neighbour)....
...Its location is peerless, right next to the Prado, a proximity acknowledged in the names of its restaurant and bar, called respectively Goya and Velázquez....
...Torre di Moravola (www.moravola.com; from €200) stands on a forested ridge between Montone and Gubbio in Umbria....
...Like Holbein to Henry VIII, or Velázquez to the Spanish court, Cranach invented the visual vocabulary of an era, shaping the public image of Luther and, as Protestant pictorial subjects emerged, finding...
...Meanwhile, developments such as Luva, north of Puerto Vallarta, and Las Torres de El Legado, in Monterrey, are targeting those seeking a permanent base....
...It is the opening day of Art Basel Miami Beach, the most glamorous art fair in the world, and Norman Braman, a prominent Florida philanthropist and businessman who chairs the host committee, puts the stellar...
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