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...past two months, the Museo de Reproducciones Artisticas in Madrid has been showing the greatest exhibition of works by Velásquez ever assembled, plus some by his predecessors, his contemporaries and his students. The show commemorates the sooth anniversary of the artist's death, but it is also an attempt on the part of Spain to put Velásquez in proper focus. To the modern eye, his canvases have seemed somewhat static alongside the high drama of El Greco and the agonized intensity of Goya. Yet Velásquez sang a song of life as rich...
Tipplers & Cooks. It was on Aug. 30, 1623 that the 24-year-old painter from Seville walked through the great galleries of the Royal Palace near Madrid and knelt for the first time before his sovereign, the 17-year-old Philip IV. He won the King's heart right from the start, and from that time until his death at 61, he was a fixture of the court. Such a position might have stifled a man without genius, or tempted him into distortion through an effort to flatter his benefactors. For Velásquez it did neither...
...probably of 'heart failure.' The ruggedness of the remains," says Goff, "indicates a muscular, vigorous male." The man also limped, had probably been wounded. When Goff found a lead ball in the bone dust, he set out to prove that Columbus had been wounded. In Madrid he verified a letter written by Columbus dated July 7, 1503 that said. "The seas were so high that my wound opened itself afresh...
...operation on Nov. 22, he registered in three hotels at once, stood up Prime Minister Harold Macmillan for lunch, and moved on to the Continent. Even Brazilian newsmen trying to follow him lost the trail. Early in December, his diplomatic passport was checked through a customs line at Madrid's Barajas Airport, but no one seems to have seen him. He was reported in Rome by Brazil's Madrid embassy and in Madrid by the Rome embassy...
...Madrid not long ago, a little red sports car ran out of gas. Out jumped Jesus and John the Baptist, in flowing robes and beards, to shove the car to a filling station. From there, the two actors (Jeffrey Hunter and Robert Ryan) drove on to a suburban movie set, where a remake of Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings was in production. In Hollywood, meanwhile, Director George Stevens and Poet Carl Sandburg pondered how to "make Christ human" one method already employed: hiring Elizabeth Taylor to play Mary Magdalene) in their adaptation of The Greatest Story Ever...