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...gathers up all the ecstatic and theatrical resources of Caravaggio's lighting and impacts them into one single figure. Zurbaran, living in Seville, never went to Italy and never saw an original Caravaggio in Spain, though he probably knew the copy of Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter, which had been praised by his teacher in Seville, Francisco Pacheco. The crucified Peter who materializes upside down in a reddish visionary fog to the entranced St. Peter Nolasco in one of Zurbaran's weirder paintings -- an astonishing prophecy of late Dali as well as an echo of Caravaggio -- must have been...
Velasquez makes Zurbaran look primitive. One senses this even in Zurbaran's most ambitious work, the immense altarpiece he did in 1638-40 for the ) Monastery of Nuestra Senora de la Defension in Jerez, the majority of whose surviving parts -- scattered long ago among museums in America, Spain, France and Scotland -- have been reunited for the first time, in the Met, for this show. Its most beautiful panels, The Adoration of the Magi and The Circumcision, are crowded with relatively still figures and seem to come out of the old world of Titian and Veronese. But when it came...
...work of 17th century Spain' s doctrinaire mystic Francisco de Zurbaran goes on magnificent display at the Metropolitan...
This week the U.S. will try to regain the Ryder Cup it lost two years ago at the Belfry Club in England to Spain's Seve Ballesteros and Germany's Bernhard Langer, the foremost golfers in the world. This time Captain Jack Nicklaus is optimistic about the Yanks' chances. Australian Greg Norman is neutral, and the site, Nicklaus' own Muirfield Village course in Ohio, is particularly unfamiliar to the foreign players. The annual Memorial Tournament there regularly conflicts with the British P.G.A...
...there can be no drowning out of the city's predominantly Latin beat. David Rieff, an editor at the New York City publishing house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the son of Critic Susan Sontag, is beguiled by old buildings that were inspired by fantasies of Moorish Spain and are now inhabited by cocaine cowboys from the Caribbean and South America. He forays among Cuban exiles and their U.S.-born children to talk to writers, artists, intellectuals and yuccas (young, up-and-coming Cuban Americans). He is impressed by their energy, ambition and sense of humor. Among the local jokes...