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...century and a half, the story was one of the tidbits in Europe's chronique scandaleuse. Spain's great painter Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, also known as "the Turbulent," took a more than artistic interest in the beautiful Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba (so gossip whispered in history's ear), and amused himself by painting her in the nude. A well-wisher tipped off her husband, the 13th Duke of Alba, who flew into a boiling Spanish rage. Gallant Goya had to think fast...
...Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias (an eleven-panel mural containing 140 life-size figures), was destroyed. But the Fascists could never touch Luis Quintanilla the artist.* His drypoints, safely scattered in museums all over the world, continued to speak with the social force-if not the human weight -of Goya's best...
...modern painting. He is against "the Morticists, the Gagaists, the Neo-Impressivists, the Neo-Depressivists, the Neophytes, the Spherists, the Circumventors and the Distractionists." U.S.-born, but an Old Etonian, who lives and paints in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, he calls his own style "social painting." Says he: "Goya's is no less social than mine. And even if you like Goya better, you will have to concede . . . that my work is no nearer to ... politics than...
...Goya's sketches and paintings of his aristocratic mistress became world-famed. He painted Teresa spread voluptuously on a divan, draped in white silk and gave the portrait to her husband. Then he painted her nude in the same posture, and kept it for himself.* Sometimes the Duchess graciously sent Goya's family tasty, palace-cooked tidbits on gold plates. Sensible Señora Goya used to eat the tidbits and keep the plates. When the Inquisition put a sleuth on the lovers' tracks, Goya caught the sleuth and calmly skinned the soles of his feet with...
...Madrid, the present Duke of Alba is awaiting the result of his order to exhume the 13th Duchess of Alba in order to solve two 143-year-old mysteries: 1) did she die of poison? 2) was she the model for Goya's famed nude...