The Nude Maja by FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Spanish School) IMPULSIVE, short of patience, and always suffenng from some physical ail ment, Goya was an uneven painter. When the sitter did not attract him, he knocked off a likeness as swiftly as possible, and refused to worry about the careless handling; when the …
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Cardinal Nino De Guevara by EL GRECO (Spanish School) by EL GRECO (Spanish School) THE glory of Spanish painting is confined to three men, all accidents of genius, and the first, a Greek from the island of Crete. Under the name El Greco, the first is one of the great portrait artists of …
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Pieta by EL GRECO (Spanish School) DURING his sojourn in Italy, EI Greco was only a young man well schooled in the styles of Tintoretto and Veronese; in Spain he suddenly shed his Venetian trappings and arrayed his genius in the most audacious and individual man ner of painting that has ever been affected. …
The Surrender of Breda by DIEGO RODRIGUEZ DE SILVA Y VELASQUEZ (Spanish School) THE emoluments from Velasquez’s royal appointment were meager, but the honors were abundant. He was constrained to associate with the idiots and dwarfs, and paid the same salary-but there were perquisites. He had a studio, rent free, in the royal palace; …
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Don Manuel Osorio De Zuniga by FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Spanish School) WHEN Goya was born, almost a century after the death of Velasquez, the whole of Europe, led by France, was preparing a battle royal for the new freedom. He lived beyond four- score years, and from his childhood when he …
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The Execution MAY 3, 1808 by FRANCISCO JOSE DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (Spanish School) THE Duchess of Alba died in 1802-“before her beauty had faded,” Goya said; his wife died in 1804, exhausted and forlorn; his only surviving son was a weakling. The deaf old painter lived on, alone as much as possible, painting …
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