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...Several exhibitions safely pair Picasso with past masters: Goya, Velázquez, El Greco....
...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....
...A famous instance is Bacon’s “Popes”, drawing equally on Velazquez’s lavish portraits of power and Sergei Eisenstein’s yelling nurse in Battleship Potemkin....
...You didn’t need O-levels to heave sacks of malt and bales of tea in Tilbury Docks, an outpost of the Port of London in the Thames estuary which was, until the 1980s, the biggest employer....
...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...
...Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 Velazquez was a professional dancer from Puerto Rico, according to Orlando Weekly, a local weekly alternative newspaper....
...Today’s highlights include Correggio’s “The Agony in the Garden” (c1525) and four paintings by Velázquez....
...Virtuosity made Sargent’s fortune, but his formal portraiture, its grand manner and lavish brushwork derived from Velázquez and Frans Hals, never fully persuaded critical opinion....
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...WH Auden wrote: “I so dislike everyday political activities that I won’t do them, but here is something I can do as a citizen and not as a writer, and as I have no dependants, I feel I ought to go; but O...
...Justin O’Shea, buying director of luxury ecommerce website Mytheresa.com, said: “There’s been a surprising emphasis on cocktail and eveningwear – a level of decadence which hasn’t really been there before...
...The Tricycle has become known for quasi-documentary dramas, but I’ve seen fine productions there of plays by Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill, as well as Shaw and Billy Roche....
...Bernini, Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Velázquez – “that viscerality” – are among his favourite Old Masters....
...Artists include Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, Poussin, Claude Lorraine, La Tour, Domenichino, Guercino, Velázquez and Murillo....
...Only Denis O’Hare, as a middle-aged sod named Mariano, exhibits much authenticity; his descent into drink seems as much a resigned response to the vacuity of his character as to the role’s requirements....
...His Pope pictures meld an image from Velazquez’s stately portrait “Innocent X” with the face of the screaming nurse in Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin....
...DANTE’S INFERNO: A Free Verse Translation by Sean O’Brien Picador ₤15, 160 pages O’Brien offers a plain-speaking and highly readable blank verse translation without the hubris which leads other poets to...
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