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...At the Slade, Rego began an affair with a married fellow student, Victor Willing. After several abortions, she returned pregnant to Portugal and gave birth to their daughter in 1956....
...An image of a sailor-suited boy refers to a childhood photograph of Rego’s husband Victor Willing, who had recently died....
...Before I knew it I was floating through the gossamer worlds of Claude and Poussin, past swashbuckling Velázquez portraits and Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro showstoppers....
...“The Maids” (1987), opening her mature oeuvre, reconsiders Velázquez via Jean Genet’s story about two servants who murdered their mistresses....
...The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, by Laura Cumming, Chatto, RRP£18.99 I read this at one go: a gripping triple narrative spinning from the Spanish Habsburg courts to 19th-century Edinburgh and...
...An unfolding miracle of jewelled detail, from a steely foreground frieze of soldiers, alluding to Velázquez’s “The Surrender of Breda”, to a tiny hanged man and a self-portrait with easel at a window in...
...His greys are as fine as Velázquez and his reds as fine as Rubens. As a painter I do claim he has never been surpassed.”...
...Miguel Zugaza, director of the state-owned Prado in Madrid, says the government subsidy for the museum and its large collection of works by Velázquez, Goya, Rubens and others is to be cut by 30 per cent...
...delicious: he, a €1,500-a-month bureaucrat in an obscure department of the National Institute of Social Security; she, billionaire aristocrat and socialite, with lands, castles and paintings by Goya and Velázquez...
...The stars then were very considerable artists: Mari Mahr and Calum Colvin, even Victor Burgin and a number of others....
...Bozar (French “beaux arts”), Victor Horta’s deco palace in Brussels, has hosted some spectacular recent exhibitions across its geometric, cavernous, eccentric spaces....
...Granted, not all previous artists had been second-class citizens and virtual artisans: Velázquez was ennobled, while Rubens became an international diplomat....
...THE HORSE: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral Merrell ₤29.95, 288 pages From Lascaux cave paintings to Elisabeth Frink via ancient Egypt, 13th-century China, Uccello, Velazquez, Rubens...
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