
Velazquez and the Spanish Court
Not Just the Tudors
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The Portrait of the Queen's Chamberlain, in the Door Frame at the Back of Las Meninas
Susanna, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me. I urge anyone listening to this to rush out and get a copy of the vanishing man. And basically, as i say, everything laura comming writes is just, you know, sort of nectar to the brine. So i think we should get hold of this one. It's just been lovely to talk about him and to ure asense of his extraordinary genius through your words. He was rescued by wellington from another one of the napoleonic battlefields and brought back to london. But every time i looked at the valascas paintings again, i thought hehas my heart.
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