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...This grand, fizzing, full show — Velázquez and Sorolla, polychrome Madonnas, fanciful mapmakers, medieval Alhambra silks — recalled the glory days in the 2000s-10s when the RA’s vast genre-crossing exhibitions...
...Pablo Picasso. Harvey Weinstein.”...
...Throughout his career, Picasso sought out the Old Masters, wrestling with the works of Velázquez, Rembrandt and El Greco in his search for an avant-garde language....
...Javier García-Mateo, partner for real estate at EY in Spain, said rental properties’ share of the country’s total housing inventory had risen from less than 10 per cent in 2010 to 15-20 per cent today, but...
...The Socialist leader struck an agreement with Pablo Iglesias to form a “progressive” alliance in the aftermath of Sunday’s election....
...Lips think Pablo Picasso once compared Salvador Dalí to an “outboard motor, continually running” — Surrealism’s most recognisable name was also one of its most prolific creators....
...“There was already feedback from investors saying drastic action was needed,” said Pablo Zárate at Pulso Energético, a think-tank....
...Each Alex Eagle x Luke Edward Hall plate has a unique design and name (Francesco or Mateo, for example)....
...He imbued economist Francisco de Cabarrús, delivering a radical speech in a fur-trimmed lime suit, with the lively, exaggerated gestures of Velázquez’s buffoon Pablo de Valladolid....
...Rome’s great “Pope Innocent X”, wily, inexorable, a whirl of flesh and blood, which the subject declared “troppo vero”, is here, and the Prado’s “Pablo de Valladolid”, the court clown caught mid-breath,...
...2013 when his “Three Studies of Lucian Freud”, a triptych of his close friend, became the most expensive artwork sold at auction, fetching $142.4m at Christie’s in New York (a record beaten last month by Pablo...
...As Botero depicted on canvas, the drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed on the Medellín rooftops in 1993....
...Dig deeper into the way different ages have responded to El Greco, Mateos says, and there are other revealing links to the marginalised and the shunned....
...In March 1946 Pablo Picasso paid one of his fortnightly visits to see Henri Matisse in Vence, a few miles inland from Nice....
...By contrast, however much we may deplore the hierarchical or God-centred world views that produced a Velázquez or a Grünewald, we recognise in these artists “an account of the species in full”....
...Philibert Rouvière died halfway through the extended creation of “The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)”, inspired by Velázquez’s portrait of jester Pablo de Vallodolid; friends modelled his unfinished legs...
...Pablo de Valladolid” and pointing straight to Picasso....
...The stock, says the family, “has been valued at €1.2bn” by Pablo Fernández Lopez”, a well-known academic at the IESE business school in Barcelona....
...In “Christ on the Cross”, the lifeless body emerging from impenetrable blackness became a wonder of Seville’s friary San Pablo el Real....
...In the summer of 1906, Pablo Picasso retreated from Paris to a village in the Spanish Pyrenees....
...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....
...“The expectation is that there will be big traffic from Brazil to our ports, but there really are no numbers,” says Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, finance minister....
...The humanity and individuality Velazquez brings to his buffoons and dwarves, the quirky modern perspective for the portrait of jester “Pablo de Valladolid”, is a highlight of this show....
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