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...them: the golden rococo surfaces of Versailles, old dynasties as portrayed by Velázquez....
...Some enterprising painters went themselves: Sebastián López de Arteaga, emigrating from Seville to Mexico in 1640, established a tenebrist Baroque school in his adopted home, with violently theatrical compositions...
...Europe had the same allegiance of genius to power: Titian and Velázquez painted the Habsburgs, Goya the Bourbons....
...Cassi Lopez-March, founder of Brooklyn’s So Gold Studios, notes navels are proving particularly popular....
...I like, lap it up, but I also leave it feeling like bad for Jennifer Lopez for not getting an Oscar. (laughter) I think like . . . Matt VellaI mean . . ....
...“The first quarter was an excellent quarter,” Velázquez said....
...Velázquez: The Complete Works, by José López-Rey and Odile Delenda, Taschen, RRP from £50, 416 pages The pleasure and greatness of Velázquez trapped between hard covers: every figure is psychologically...
...Mr López Obrador opposes the reform and wants to stamp out graft....
...Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made “rescuing” Pemex a national priority....
...But now, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made it increasingly tough even to get into Mexico....
...Mr López Obrador has ruled out increasing Pemex’s debt and criticised rating agencies for turning sour on Pemex when he says government support has stabilised production....
...Completing the team is Alberto Velázquez, a university economics professor, as Pemex finance chief. None responded to requests to be interviewed for this article, nor did Mr López Obrador....
...award for Shakespeare in Love in 1998 – her father then bought it for her as a memento – and there was a marked return to classic Winston style at this year’s Golden Globes, with Helen Mirren, Jennifer Lopez...
...Pemex is moving in the right direction,” Alberto Velázquez, finance director, told a conference call with analysts....
...Markets are also alarmed at Mr López Obrador’s desire to end oil exports within three years in order to refine domestically and make Mexico self-sufficient in fuel....
...Mr López Obrador is relying on improvements at Pemex, given that the company funds a fifth of the national budget....
...“Pemex will be reborn,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily morning news conference on Friday, at which the additional measures were announced....
...The presiding artistic spirits are of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who “wrote that a library is a labyrinth”, and Velázquez, whose paintings contain other paintings within them, which are in turn...
...There is a lot of uncertainty,” said Claudia Lopez Ruiz, an undocumented immigrant who crossed into the US from Mexico a decade ago with her two children, who were two and six years old at the time....
...The royal portrait, for centuries the ultimate commission for artists from Holbein to Velázquez, has become a much-neglected genre of late....
...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...
...Top lot is “Portrait of Juan López de Robredo” by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), considered the greatest Spanish painter of his time....
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