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    The Portrait of Count-Duke de Olivares is a painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, finished in 1635. It is housed in the Hermitage Museum of St....
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  • Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares may refer to Equestrian portrait of Duke de Olivares Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares (Hermitage) Portrait...
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    Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares, GE, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (taken by joining both his countship...
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    from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Notable works included: A Scholar (1631), by Rembrandt The Lute Player (c. 1596), by Caravaggio Ecstasy of Saint...
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    catching the shower of gold. She is a different figure at each appearance, though the pose in the Hermitage follows the Prado version. The small dog...
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    quarrel erupted between Buckingham and the Count of Olivares, the Spanish chief minister, and so Charles conducted the ultimately futile negotiations personally...
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  • Thumbnail for The Lunch (Velázquez)
    The Lunch is a very early painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, finished c. 1617. The work, an oil painting on canvas, is in the Hermitage Museum...
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  • was so small that, depending on who's counting, Mr. Brown estimates, there are only 110 to 120 known canvases by the artist. López-Rey, p. 46. Morán Turina...
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    patron of the arts, was the grandson of Pope Paul III (who also bore the name Alessandro Farnese), and the son of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, who...
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    A Pilgrimage to San Isidro (category Paintings by Francisco Goya in the Museo del Prado)
    now on display at the Museo del Prado. A Pilgrimage to San Isidro shows a view of the pilgrimage towards San Isidro's Hermitage of Madrid that is totally...
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    Holy Family under an Oak Tree (category Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Raphael)
    Baths of Caracalla. Its popularity is demonstrated by the large number of surviving copies, for example in Pesaro, Bologna, the Hermitage Museum, the Royal...
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    thousand drawings. Goya's early career as a painter in the court of Charles III is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and tapestry cartoons in a Rococo...
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    to Francisco de Goya that shows a giant in the centre of the canvas walking towards the left hand side of the picture. Mountains obscure his legs up to...
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    Blind Man's Bluff and The Hermitage of San Isidro, all of them preparatory canvases for the Aragonese artist's cartoons. In the work it can be seen that...
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    for the Hermitage of San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist) on the grounds of Buen Rierto in Madrid, under orders from the Viceroy of Naples, the Conde...
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    1641 against the policies of Count-Duke of Olivares Kohn, George C. (2008). Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence: from ancient times to the present. Infobase...
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