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...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...Best yet, it’s all available online and can be shipped internationally. shop.zeitzmocaa.museum Rima Suqi Prado Museum, Madrid The Prado’s main shop, Tienda Prado, isn’t exactly charming in itself, possessing...
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...Covered with gilt and dimly lit with candles . . . powerful or banal/Monuments of riches or repression . . . the Escorial/Cold for ever within like the heart of Philip . . . and in the Prado half/Wit princes...
...paintings . . . expressing the profound reasons that lead human beings to create art that enriches life,” the Nobel Prize-winning novelist (and the author of The Perpetual Orgy, a book about Flaubert) Mario Vargas...
...The historic Mandarin Oriental Ritz, opened in 1910 several blocks away near the Prado museum, will reopen later this year after a thorough renovation....
...Prado, Travessa das Pedras Negras 2, 1100-404 Lisbon (pradorestaurante.com) If weren’t a designer, I would be something that involved swimming underwater. I don’t know what – perhaps a scuba diver?...
...Judit Varga has attacked the process as “politically motivated, biased, and factually incorrect”....
...Museo Nacional del Prado, Calle Ruiz de Alarcón, 28014 (+34913-302 800; museodelprado.es)....
...His father, Ernesto, was a macho and a bully who hit his wife, beat his son, and sent him away, aged 14, to the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima....
...Returning from the Louvre and the Prado, these are outstanding highlights....
...Another highlight from the Louvre is Titian’s “Supper at Emmaus” (c. 1530), while the Prado will send “Charles V with a Dog” (1533) by the same artist....
...“The idea of spreading the World Cup across Brazil was not a good one,” says Rafael Alcadipani, a faculty member at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, an academic institution....
...(He was court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.) By his death in 1576 he was the most important artist in Europe, yet we know very little about him other than his preoccupation with money....
...Today, Bolivia’s military guard the entrance to the v-shaped valley that hosts the cluster of adobe shacks that feed the mine....
...Prado highlights Brasil Foods 15 per cent EBITDA margin in 4Q10. “It will be higher in the long-term....
...He had an itinerant and comfortable childhood, but an introduction to the harsher realities of Peruvian society came when, aged 14, he was sent to board at the Leoncio Prado military academy in Lima....
...Philip V manoeuvring his horse as “expertly” as his kingdom was a pure fiction, of course – his kingdom was a shambles....
...Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat, a fictionalised portrait of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, came second....
...The V&A offers 60 superb drawings from British collections, many rarely, or never, seen in public....
...The epidemic could be pulling gross domestic product growth down by as much as 1.5 percentage points in 10 years’ time, according to V.P. Rao, an NCAER economist....
...With one or two exceptions - such as contemporary French Reine Noire Fred Vargas - European female writers have experimented with travel rather than adventure....
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