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Duchess of Alba Goya’s lover and model, immortalized on canvas. [Span. Art: Wallechinsky, 192] See : Beauty, Feminine How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Connell, as a novelist, senses certain resentments against the Duchess of Alba where the rest of us might think merely of generic misogyny in certain of the Caprichios. Along with many aspects of Goya's working methods, we learn of his early ambition to become portraitist to the Spanish Court, his passion for the seductive, assassinated Duchess of Alba (Maribel Verdu), his disillusionment with his country's social backwardness while the Enlightenment was in full swing across the border, and his even more devastating realization that those enlightened French who came a-calling behind Napoleon's bayonets were capable of the worst atrocities. However unaccustomed Ligozzi and Passignano might have found certain Spanish demands, the strictures they encountered were less troublesome than those imposed on another contemporary Florentine commission, for Dona Maria de Toledo y Colonna, Dowager Duchess of Alba (1554-1612). |
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