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...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...It was an extraordinary luxury to spend time alone with Bosch, Titian, Velázquez or Goya....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
...and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...I visit Zafferano to order the Milanese veal escalope and saffron risotto and love to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum: I discovered the V&A during the McQueen retrospective and the fashion collection...
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...Aping Velázquez’s sumptuous surfaces and grandeur of composition in the velvety purple 1950s popes in “Figure Sitting” and “Study for a Portrait”, or deconstructing Picasso’s deconstructions, and throwing...
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...Today’s highlights include Correggio’s “The Agony in the Garden” (c1525) and four paintings by Velázquez....
...“Infanta mean girls” was how Erdem Moralioglu described his woman this season, as he reeled off a list of eclectic inspirations from Velázquez paintings of infantas, old clothes stored in Blyth House where...
...Viewed as even more degenerate was the debutante Mary Blomfield, who when presented at court refused to curtsy to George V, instead kneeling to implore him to stop torturing women....
...No wonder he is the painter’s painter; the touchstone for Rubens, Velázquez and Delacroix. (The latter said that all great painters were Titian’s “flesh and blood”.)...
...For 500 years, men shaped art’s possibilities by painting women: Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa”, Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, Velazquez’ Infanta and her maids in “Las Meninas”, Manet’s “Olympia”, Picasso’s “Demoiselles...
...Behind them, the Italian Gianlorenzo Bernini was just flexing his creative muscles, Rubens was in his Antwerp pomp and, in a recently established Seville studio, the 20-year-old Diego Velázquez was taking...
...Philip V manoeuvring his horse as “expertly” as his kingdom was a pure fiction, of course – his kingdom was a shambles....
...The V&A offers 60 superb drawings from British collections, many rarely, or never, seen in public....
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