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Diego Velazquez

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The Spurious Progressivism of Spanish Colonial Art

Avatar photo by Lucas Justinien Perez August 26, 2019August 28, 2019

Art and Empire attempts to retell the story of Spain’s golden age by highlighting the global exchange of cultures as seen in the empire’s art and its hugely diverse body of subjects.

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The Influence of Painting on Balenciaga’s Visual Universe

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford July 15, 2019August 29, 2020

An exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum demonstrates that though it would seem impossible to replicate El Greco’s gleaming fabrics in real life, Balenciaga manages to do just that.

Posted inArt

Six Famous Paintings that Were Given New Names

by Elena Goukassian February 15, 2018February 28, 2018

Non-artists have renamed famous paintings before, and they certainly will again.

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The Merits of Old Masters’ B-Sides, at the Frick

by Peter Malone January 12, 2015April 15, 2016

Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant moment in each artist’s career.

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An Italian Duke Visits the Met

by Michelle Vaughan April 18, 2013April 19, 2013

The Met has dedicated an entire room to a prized portrait painted by Diego Velázquez titled “Duke Francesco I d’Este” (1638), on loan from the Galleria Estense in Modena, Italy.

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Digital Homage to the Old Masters

by Ellen Pearlman May 15, 2012April 15, 2016

Davide Quagliola (aka Quayola) an Italian digital artist, loves art. He loves his Roman heritage, brimming with Renaissance and Baroque innuendos. And he loves classical images, and the beauty of the algorithm.

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Not as Famous, or Lesser-known Relatives of Well-known Artists

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 27, 2011June 2, 2011

Dik F. Liu is a Williamsburg-based artist who has compiled a fascinating list on his Facebook profile page of what he has termed the “Not as Famous – Lesser known relatives of well-known artists.” He has allowed us to publish a number of the gems he’s found. Love triangles, same-sex spouses, illegitimate children, there’s a lot of juicy stuff here.

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King Phillip IV Signs Autographs at the Met

by Kyle Chayka March 7, 2011March 13, 2011

Contemporary art definitely has its superstars, but art history? For this special day, Spanish painting celebrity and subject of a portrait by Velazquez, King Phillip IV signed autographs in front of his picture on view at the Metropolitan museum.

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