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I do not know whether the video has reached the internet yet, in which, yesterday, at the newly opened Juan Cantina Española in Petersburg, having read the Spanish Vanity Fair and eaten my fill of fried artichokes, I shouted that within two hundred metres

I do not know whether the video has reached the internet yet, in which, yesterday, at the newly opened Juan Cantina Española in Petersburg, having read the Spanish Vanity Fair and eaten my fill of fried artichokes, I shouted that within two hundred metres there was no more beautiful woman

Faith · Art · Madrid · Museums

Nicholas of Tolentino, 1601, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz

Nicholas of Tolentino, 1601, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz. Collection of the Prado Museum. The Catholic saint Nicholas of Tolentino (1245-1305) was an Augustinian monk, renowned for his asceticism, and is depicted in the black Augustinian habit with a star on his breast. The bird standing on the dish

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As a movement, Impressionism arose at the end of the nineteenth century, but one need only look at the spinning wheel in Velázquez's Las Hilanderas, painted around 1657, to see an example of liberation from pure geometrical form already in seventeenth-cen

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Leonardo's Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa of one of his pupils, probably Francesco Melzi (1493-1573) or Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, known by the nickname Salaì (1480-1524)

Leonardo's Mona Lisa and the Mona Lisa of one of his pupils, probably Francesco Melzi (1493-1573) or Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, known by the nickname Salaì (1480-1524). Both paintings were executed at roughly the same time. The first, by da Vinci, hangs in the Louvre.

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Saturn Devouring His Son, as Performed by Rubens and Goya

Saturn Devouring His Son, as performed by Rubens and Goya. Next to the second, the first looks like an innocent nibble

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Last year the Prado Museum reattributed the painting "The Colossus" as a work by Francisco Goya of 1808-12

Last year the Prado Museum reattributed the painting "The Colossus" as a work by Francisco Goya of 1808-12. A naked giant with a clenched fist, standing before a field of scattering people, may, in the view of art historians, symbolise the struggle against Napoleon's army.

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Why can't menswear be like this?

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. Portrait of David Lyon, Thomas Lawrence, 1825. Portrait of a Youth in a Plumed Hat, Ferdinand Bol, 1647. Portrait of Tommaso Raimondi, Amico Aspertini, 1500.

NB! · Madrid · Museums · Nature · Humour

The National Archaeological Museum of Spain Gets a Dusting

The National Archaeological Museum of Spain has been given a dusting. For the first time in 10 years, snow has fallen in Madrid. The official announcement: the museum is closed on account of a climatic cataclysm. We would put it differently: what a stroke of luck!

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And More on Amusing Coincidences

And more on amusing coincidences. Princess Leia and the stone Lady of Elche, 4th century BC, Archaeological Museum of Madrid

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The Prado Museum and WWF illustrate the consequences of climate change with great paintings from the museum's collection

The Prado Museum and WWF have illustrated the consequences of climate change with great paintings from the museum's collection. Diego Velázquez's Philip IV is drowning, horse and all; Joachim Patinir's crossing to the underworld has run dry; Joaquín Sorolla's Children on the

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Naples had an excellent school of carving not only in stone, but also in bone

Naples had an excellent school of carving not only in stone, but also in bone. And if the famous sculpture in the Sansevero Chapel showed a man struggling free from the net of vice, then the treasury of the National Archaeological Museum of Spain holds, for example, a 40-centimetre

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The Duke of Alba's Dinner in Honour of the Birth of the Prince of Asturias, 1707

The Duke of Alba's dinner in honour of the birth of the Prince of Asturias, 1707. I noticed an amusing detail: there is not a single glass on the table. Why? If any of the guests should deign to drink, the servants will bring him one at once