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...Giovanni Rodríguez, a muscular, tattooed 36-year-old, whose jet black hair is gelled upright, shows me his handiwork. He is in the process of painting a bus, predominantly white and blue....
...Were he to write a sequel to this magisterial work, he would, no doubt, mention two later artists whom Dante inspired: William Blake and Salvador Dalí....
...Then the baroque secularises the writer, in rushing vistas such as Giovanni da San Giovanni’s “The Muses with the Poets and Philosophers Expelled from Parnassus”....
...Mr Solís could not seek re-election....
...Also up for sale is a rare collection of nine Tuscan Renaissance Cassone panels by various Italian painters, including one by Giovanni Francesco Toscani (estimated at £600,000-£900,000)....
...With about three-quarters of the votes counted, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, vice-president, was ahead with 48.95 per cent – a wide lead over former San Salvador mayor Norman Quijano, who favours using the army...
...Indeed, most of the “big-name” paintings owned by drug lords – among them works reputedly by Francisco Goya, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Salvador Dalí – have turned out to be fakes....
...Those who doubt that the same painter is responsible for the two Annunciations, one painted in 1535 from the Scuola di San Rocco, the other made 20 years later for the Church of San Salvador, can be forgiven...
...Mr Solís insisted that, as president, he would have been far more cautious about joining....
...Bonhams Impressionist and modern artDecember 11A collection of 44 sculptures modelled by Salvador Dalí and cast in bronze by Isidro Clot leads this sale with an estimate of up to £1m....
...Last week, El Salvador announced that it would be ready to implement the accord in the coming weeks....
...To do that he will almost certainly have to turn to Mr Solís, whose party is expected to end up with as many as 18 seats....
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