More than 75 pictures from the Hispanic Society, celebrating its centenary; starting with Goya's grave portrait of Pedro Mocarte, they track an arc to figures like Francisco Núñez Losada and salon virtuosi like Ignacio Zuloaga and Joaquín Sorolla.
More information about the tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster slowly has trickled out, with orphaned photos still finding their way home, and secret reports about the lack of preparation for a nuclear disaster painting a grave portrait.
For the cover and booklet of "Sacrificium" grave portraits of the ebullient Ms. Bartoli's face have been grafted onto the nude male bodies of antique statuary, an allusion, she said, to the androgynous appeal of a woman's voice emanating from a male body.
In a program note, Mr. Riley describes the drone as "a metaphor for a luminous passageway that conducts us first to birth and then, inevitably, to death," a suggestion that gives the piece the spirit of a cradle-to-grave portrait.
He used human ash — yes, human ash — against black painted canvas to create his aptly named "Grave Robber" portraits.
Educated for the law, he climbed up the judicial and political ladders of Tudor England until in 1529 the king appointed him Lord Chancellor: the statesman of Hans Holbein's portrait, inscrutably grave in red velvet sleeves, furred gown and gold chain.Early chapters of the book try valiantly to tell at least some of this story from Margaret's point of view.
Graves had visited the university the previous year, and Burgess's review included a portrait of Graves as a "burly six-foot-two red-faced farmer … flicking cigarette ends into the fire" and invariably missing the target – just as the poems did, said Burgess.
I found several of them of much interest: a Vermeer that was not a Vermeer; a landscape that looked exactly like an Edward Hicks "Peaceable Kingdom"; a full-length portrait of a grave young woman by an unknown artist, set against a bosky background painted by a different unknown hand.
"Grave Robber," a series of portraits by a controversial Czech artist and prankster who goes by the name Roman Tyc, has raised more than a few eyebrows since opening at the Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery (Dlouha 5; www.dvoraksec.com).
Evelyn Hofer, a photographer whose searching, exactingly composed portraits imparted a grave serenity to her human and architectural subjects and who collaborated on a renowned series of travel books with eminent writers in the 1950s and 1960s, died on Nov. 2 in Mexico City.
The function of these figurines is not known: due to gender and age mismatches, they are unlikely to be portraits of the grave occupants, although the later figurines are known to be representations of goddesses.
