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Duchess of Alba

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Duchess of Alba
Goya’s lover and model, immortalized on canvas. [Span. Art: Wallechinsky, 192]


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Among them are the two favorites of the Duchess of Alba: "Portrait of the Grand Duke of Alba" by 16th century Italian Renaissance painter Titian and "The Duchess of Alba in White", by Francisco de Goya, painted in 1795.
Now the flamboyant Duchess of Alba has, at 82, found herself at the centre of a row involving a younger lover, wedding plans, her disapproving children and claims that she may be losing her mind.
Connell starts his story with a description of Maria Teresa Cayetana de Silva, the beautiful and headstrong Duchess of Alba, with whom Goya was rumored to have had an affair.
 
 
 
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