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...Deliberate anachronism reaches its apotheosis in the room devoted to El Greco, who disappeared from view for centuries, until he was reclaimed as a proto-Modernist in the early 1900s....
...Based almost entirely on the collections of the Spanish monarchs, from the astute Philip II onwards, its peerless holdings of the Spanish masters — Goya, El Greco, Velázquez and others — are reinforced by...
...Among the family’s trophies here, you see it in Titian’s portrait of the ambitious cardinal, in El Greco’s searching, meditative depiction of painter Giulio Clovio and in Parmigianino’s elongated elegance...
...His wish, especially in the years following the coronation and his great victory at Austerlitz, was to have imagery charged with every kind of imperial memory: Greco-Alexandrian, Roman Augustan, Frankish...
...He feels like a living presence: as a critic on contemporary art, I am struck by how many conversations with painters — Peter Doig, David Hockney, Bridget Riley — turn to Monet....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is El Greco. His paintings have an aura very few artists can produce. The works are so full of luminosity and mysticism....
...Several exhibitions safely pair Picasso with past masters: Goya, Velázquez, El Greco....
...Their monumental “grass portraits”, using chlorophyll and photosynthesis to create a range of tones, from lemon yellow to El Greco greens, stand only a few metres from the museum’s fig....
...Post-pandemic, if collapsing museum budgets make blockbuster shows scarce and global cultural travel never recovers, then 2020 was a swan song: Raphael in Rome, Matisse in Paris, Monet in Berlin, El Greco...
...Chief executive Mario Greco said on Thursday: “Our strategy does not require M&A....
...The two that have been most often asked for are the El Greco ‘Agony in the Garden’ and the Titian ‘Noli me Tangere’. ” In 1942 this Titian became the first-ever “Picture of the Month” — a tradition that...
...The troupe of five or so developers, clad in hoodies and jeans, have an air of Peter Pan’s lost boys....
...Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Prof Marcus Munafò Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol Dr Josephine Borghi Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Prof Peter...
...You’ll find Greek sculpture, medieval stained glass, Titian and El Greco as well as Olmec heads, Mughal miniatures and Paul Gauguin in the programmes....
...This, in turn, led to the invention of an Islamic “Golden Age” after which Renaissance Europe emerged as the true successor of Greco-Roman civilisation....
...Works by Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake and Howard Hodgkin will also go under the hammer....
...● Related Lex note: AIG — stakes in the ground Zurich investors pin hopes on comeback under Greco Mario Greco quit as chief executive of Generali after three years spent turning round the Italian insurer...
...He was replaced earlier this year by Mario Greco, former chief executive of Italian rival Generali....
...“I have to constantly update our digital maps,” says Peter Bellerby, 50, founder of Bellerby & Co Globemakers in Stoke Newington, north London....
...While the Columbus letter was subject to an export ban, an El Greco painting that had been in Spain since at least 1903 was sold by Sotheby’s in London two years ago for £3.4m....
...This year he passed the role of running day-to-day operations to his sister Suzanne Greco, who survives him along with his wife and son....
...“When I see an El Greco,” Xavier Bray, chief curator at Dulwich, tells me, “I will sometimes say ‘I can see 70 per cent El Greco and 30 per cent studio.’...
...Some believe an icon of a Black Madonna, made by St Luke, was brought here by St Peter 50 years after Christ’s birth....
...Photographs: Fernando Arias/Getty Images/Flickr RF; Alamy; Mary Prophit; Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images...
...Greco thus “commended Montenegro for substantial reforms”....
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