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Quite a few are: there are five other Velásquezes and five major El Grecos, including that overwhelming trumpet voluntary, the Prado's huge Annunciation of 1600. There are works by Francisco Ribalta and his great junior Jose de Ribera, a group of paintings by Zurbarán-including an exquisite still-life of cream and ocher pots drawn up like liturgical vessels on a table...
...continuing the policy, Atheneum Director Charles C. Cunningham, 47, Fogg-trained and onetime ('32) Harvard hockey captain, played up the collection's strength, has made Hartford today a showplace for baroque. Among the museum's bargain showpieces: Francisco Ribalta's Ecstasy of St. Francis (first by the 17th century Spanish master to enter a U.S. collection), Salvator Rosa's wild-haired portrait of his mistress, La Ricciardi (purchased for a mere $4,500), Francisco Zurbarán's dramatic St. Serapion, and the museum's latest acquisition, the powerful, full-bearded Philosopher...