{"id":535,"date":"2014-07-03T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2014-07-03T10:44:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T08:44:52","slug":"lo-que-oculta-la-pintura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/en\/lo-que-oculta-la-pintura\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:es-->Lo que oculta la pintura<!--:--><!--:en-->What painting hides<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es-->En el 1600 de la 21st Street de Washington, un\u00a0 hermoso hotel en ladrillo rojo alberga, en la antigua residencia\u00a0 familiar, la colecci\u00f3n art\u00edstica de Marjorie y Duncan Phillips.\u00a0 Es la sede de la que se conoce como <i>The Phillips Collection<\/i>, excelente museo y colecci\u00f3n conocida por el ancho mundo. Entre sus ochenta y tantas obras maestras m\u00e1s conocidas figuran piezas de El Greco (<i>san Pedro penitente), <\/i>o del mismo<i> <\/i>Goya (con igual asunto de <i>san Pedro penitente<\/i>). El museo exhibe tambi\u00e9n otras maravillas como una, salida de la mano de\u00a0 Picasso ( <i>La habitaci\u00f3n azul, The Blue Room<\/i>). Se trata de un oleo sobre lienzo de 50,6 x 61,6 cm. adquirido por los Phillips en 1927.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-536\" alt=\"La habitaci\u00f3n azul de Pablo Picasso\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_01.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_01.jpg 560w, https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_01-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>La Habitaci\u00f3n Azul.\u00a0<\/b>Pablo Picasso, 1901\u00a0Oleo sobre lienzo. 50,6 x 61,6 cm\u00a0Phillips Collection . Washington<\/h6>\n<p>Este cuadro, pintado por Picasso en su taller del parisino Boulevard de Clichy a finales de 1901, est\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n inspirado en un\u00a0 pastel de la misma colecci\u00f3n (el Degas <i>Tras el Ba\u00f1o<\/i>), y oculta una pintura previa seg\u00fan hemos sabido hace escasamente unos d\u00edas. La picassiana\u00a0 <i>Habitaci\u00f3n Azul <\/i>representa una amalgama de estilos y elementos art\u00edsticos y subyace en ella la presencia de un Picasso que como <i>voyeur <\/i>subrepticio observa a su modelo, tal y como can\u00f3nicamente hace Degas con su modelo en <i>Tras el Ba\u00f1o. <\/i>Un tema al que<i> <\/i>Picasso regresar\u00e1 una y otra vez a lo largo de su vida.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-537\" alt=\"real goya\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_02.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_02.jpg 560w, https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_02-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Personaje desconocido oculto bajo la pintura \u201cLa Habitaci\u00f3n Azul\u201d<\/b><\/h6>\n<p>Seg\u00fan informa el 17 de junio pasado desde Washington Brett Zongker, de Associated Press, cient\u00edficos y expertos en arte han encontrado esta pintura oculta debajo de una de las primeras obras maestras de Pablo Picasso, <i>La Habitaci\u00f3n Azul <\/i>(<i>The Blue Room<\/i>) utilizando los \u00faltimos avances en im\u00e1genes infrarrojas que revelan el retrato de un hombre con la cara apoyada en su mano, con chaqueta y corbata y con tres anillos en sus dedos. \u00a0La pregunta ahora es saber \u00bfDe qui\u00e9n se trata?. De momento es un misterio. Se sabe que es una pintura de los inicios de la carrera de Picasso, en Par\u00eds, en el comienzo de su per\u00edodo azul, caracterizado por temas melanc\u00f3licos. Y que a lo largo de los \u00faltimos cinco a\u00f1os, expertos de la Phillips Collection, de la National Gallery of Art, de la Universidad de Cornell y del Delawares Winterthur Museum han llegado a desarrollar una imagen m\u00e1s clara de este misterioso personaje oculto bajo la superficie del cuadro. De modo que la conservadora de la Phillips, Patricia Favero, \u00a0ha estado colaborando con otros expertos para analizar la pintura con tecnolog\u00eda de im\u00e1gen multiespectral y escaneo de fluorescencia de rayos x, para intentar identificar los colores de la pintura oculta. Por ahora la investigaci\u00f3n contin\u00faa, en medio de una operaci\u00f3n casi detectivesca, mientras el cuadro est\u00e1 realizando una itinerancia por Corea del Sur hasta principios de 2015.\u00a0 Se trata de una cuesti\u00f3n seria, razonable y muy bien planteada y sometida a rigurosa investigaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Otra cosa bien distinta es lo que ha salido a la luz recientemente respecto a la compra de un goya de 1783 por parte del gobierno regional aragon\u00e9s (DGA) en Espa\u00f1a y de la primera instituci\u00f3n financiera de la regi\u00f3n (Ibercaja), quienes a finales de 2006, con mucho cari\u00f1o compraron conjuntamente el retrato de Don Luis Mar\u00eda de Borb\u00f3n y Vallabriga. Un retrato que oculta algo que no es, por cierto, otro cuadro. Lo que queda oculto para el contribuyente es averiguar por qu\u00e9 una pintura cuyo valor de mercado no superaba ni de lejos los dos millones de euros fue comprada por cinco veces m\u00e1s, es decir, diez millones de euros. Cu\u00e1l es la raz\u00f3n \u00faltima de semejante barbaridad.\u00a0 Si bien es cierto que \u201ctodo necio confunde valor y precio\u201d, basta analizar m\u00ednimamente una compra tan espectral como incomprensible para el com\u00fan, para empezar a hacerse preguntas de manera torrencial: esta ha sido una actuaci\u00f3n \u00fanica pues que se sepa no ha tenido continuidad \u00bfo s\u00ed?. \u00bfHay, por tanto, planificaci\u00f3n? Si no es as\u00ed, como parece, \u00bfa qu\u00e9 responde verdaderamente este comportamiento?. \u00bfManejamos tanto dinero que hay que hacer algo que lo justifique? \u00bfEs eso?. Y, de repente, a alguien \u201cse le ocurre\u201d que como estamos en la tierra de Goya\u2026. Vamos a usar a Goya \u2013una vez m\u00e1s- para hacer ver que hacemos algo, que el nombre de Goya siempre adorna mucho y a la gente la\u00a0 tranquiliza\/anestesia. No es por tanto un retrato oculto, como en el \u00a0Picasso, sino que se trata de un retrato que oculta algo. Oculta que una <i>fundaci\u00f3n PLAZA (<\/i>Plataforma Log\u00edstica de Zaragoza)<i> <\/i>financiada por el consejo de administraci\u00f3n de esa plataforma log\u00edstica (sic) tiene el dinero suficiente, mucho, perfectamente dispuesto para gastarlo de manera tan il\u00f3gica como precipitada, hasta el punto de que la asociaci\u00f3n Acci\u00f3n P\u00fablica para la Defensa del Patrimonio Aragon\u00e9s (APUDEPA) present\u00f3 una denuncia ante la fiscal\u00eda por \u201cun presunto delito de malversaci\u00f3n de caudales p\u00fablicos\u201d. A esta compra la citada Fundaci\u00f3n Plaza la incluye, eufem\u00edsticamente, en el por entonces en boga proyecto de \u201c<b><i>responsabilidad social corporativa\u201d<\/i><\/b> . \u00bfDivertido, verdad?. Ya dec\u00eda el propio Goya que \u201cen acord\u00e1ndome de Zaragoza, me quemo vivo\u201d. Pues dos siglos y medio despu\u00e9s las cosas no han cambiado mucho.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-538\" alt=\"real goya\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_03.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_03.jpg 560w, https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_03-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Don Luis Mar\u00eda de Borb\u00f3n y Vallabriga\u00a0<\/b>Oleo sobre lienzo.\u00a0 130 x 116 cm.\u00a0Francisco de Goya, 1783<\/h6>\n<p>Si los mal formados administradores <i>responsables<\/i> (\u00bf) de tal fundaci\u00f3n utilizan de este modo un dinero que no es suyo, habr\u00e1 que convenir que el altruismo , que seg\u00fan define la RAE consiste en la \u201cdiligencia en procurar el bien ajeno a\u00fan a costa del propio\u201d, es una quimera para esta gente. Desde luego son cualquier cosa menos altruistas, lo que ruboriza a todo ciudadano decente. Porque\u00a0 esta clase de usos y costumbres, actualmente y por fortuna bajo la atenta y vigilante mirada de la Justicia, suponen sin duda la irresponsabilidad, la desmedida ambici\u00f3n personal y la falta de sentido del Estado de unos sectores desgraciadamente habituados al trato de privilegio. Pero hoy en Espa\u00f1a, y a sus efectos nos remitimos, los ciudadanos est\u00e1n en manos de id\u00f3latras del dinero, al que han puesto en el centro de sus vidas. Y as\u00ed se entiende mucho mejor que si en el <i>Ranking Shanghai,<\/i> el m\u00e1s prestigioso del mundo en la clasificaci\u00f3n de las primeras 500 universidades, hay que bajar al puesto 200 para encontrar a una espa\u00f1ola, la Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid; entre las primeras 400 hay s\u00f3lo cinco espa\u00f1olas, pero por desgracia la universidad de la tierra de Goya no est\u00e1 entre esas 400. No es de extra\u00f1ar, en consecuencia, la falta de responsabilidad social y la ausencia de criterios morales de una <i>clase<\/i> dirigente (\u00a1!) en una sociedad a la que se toma el pelo con toda naturalidad, y a la que se niega sistem\u00e1ticamente toda clase de explicaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>El cuadro al que nos referimos es un retrato complaciente pero amanerado, empalagoso, blando y poco brillante y quiz\u00e1s est\u00e1 de m\u00e1s, por innecesario, para aumentar la n\u00f3mina de goyas en la ciudad natal de Goya, Zaragoza, que ya cuenta con magn\u00edficos ejemplos de retratos, como el del Duque de San Carlos (Canal Imperial de Arag\u00f3n) y el de Don F\u00e9lix de Azara (Ibercaja). Si bien es cierto que el retratado don Luis Mar\u00eda de Borb\u00f3n y Vallabriga\u00a0\u00a0 es hijo de la zaragozana Mar\u00eda Teresa de Vallabriga, esposa que fue del Infante don Luis de Borb\u00f3n y que llegar\u00eda a ser cardenal de la iglesia cat\u00f3lica\u00a0 y en tal condici\u00f3n retratado brillantemente, esta vez s\u00ed, por un Goya m\u00e1s maduro. No es este, en conclusi\u00f3n, un cuadro ni siquiera necesario en Arag\u00f3n; hab\u00eda, y hay, otros mejores en calidad y significaci\u00f3n y que pod\u00edan haber sido comprados por much\u00edsimo menos dinero. De eso no hay ninguna duda. Pero montado as\u00ed el asunto, se entra en la mec\u00e1nica habitual de esta muy particular clase de mecenazgo: aparecen agentes comerciales y aunque algunos lo deploren, el desarrollo del mecenazgo entra\u00f1a la creaci\u00f3n de una suerte de \u201cmercado\u201d con una oferta y una demanda. Habitualmente, los ofertantes y los demandantes prefieren entrar directamente en contacto, sin ning\u00fan intermediario. Ocultarse. Debe ser \u00e9ste \u00a0el caso, en el que tampoco parece que hayan intervenido, por la parte compradora, verdaderos expertos ni en la obra de Goya, ni en sus precios de mercado, ni en la realizaci\u00f3n de compras de esta envergadura, con lo que podr\u00edamos concluir que todo apunta a un acto fallido, llamativamente oculto y m\u00e1s que digno de ser aclarado.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfQu\u00e9 podemos hacer nosotros, simples contribuyentes que presenciamos, con ojos de gallina, una Espa\u00f1a destrozada y en la que la lentitud de nuestra Justicia llega siempre con retraso?. Aunque llegue. Siempre tenemos el consuelo de recordar a nuestros mayores, a nuestros maestros y a la gente digna y decente, much\u00edsima, que ha habido y todav\u00eda sigue habiendo en Espa\u00f1a:<\/p>\n<p>El profesor Juli\u00e1n G\u00e1llego en\u00a0 su excelente libro <i>El Pintor de Artesano a Artista (<\/i>Universidad de Granada, Espa\u00f1a, 1976 ) \u00a0ilustra sobre la nobleza e ingenuidad de la pintura y ofrece algunas de las variadas maneras de mostrar un cuadro e, incluso, de ocultamientos y otras visiones subrepticias de la pintura. Por otra parte, el profesor G\u00e1llego tambi\u00e9n cita a Palomino en su tratado sobre la te\u00f3rica y la \u201cpr\u00e1ctica\u201d de la pintura (1715), que en un maravilloso exabrupto,\u00a0 asegura que \u201cno escribe para los varones, doctos y eruditos, que la conocen (la Pintura) y ensalzan, ni para los heroicos pr\u00edncipes y caballeros, que la ilustran, la honran y apadrinan; pues para los unos ser\u00eda ofensa suponerles tibios en el conocimiento de una verdad tan constante; y para los otros ser\u00eda agravio persuadirles de un supuesto evidente: sino para un cierto, indiscreto vulgo que teniendo por ultraje saber algo, hace raz\u00f3n de estado el ignorarlo todo; revestido de una caballer\u00eda fant\u00e1stica, forjando de la ignorancia, el ocio y el vicio los blasones de su nobleza. \u00a1Raro linaje de b\u00e1rbaros! Hinchados con la soberbia de una vana prosperidad, siendo mudo argumento de una fortuna ciega y t\u00e1cita reprensi\u00f3n de un hado injusto, mirando con menosprecio a los art\u00edfices y hombres eruditos, llenos de ciencia y experiencia, sin tener ellos m\u00e1s ornato que leer mal y escribir peor: mas para estos en vano es disputarlo; porque ni ellos han de leerlo, ni su aprobaci\u00f3n ha de ilustrarlo, como ni su desprecio abatirlo\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed pues, la cuesti\u00f3n es vieja como el mundo y la ilustra tambi\u00e9n el propio Goya en el <i>capricho 38 Brab\u00edsimo!, <\/i>en el que proclama que hay mecenazgos que se prestan s\u00f3lo por fatuidad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-539\" alt=\"real goya\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_04.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_04.jpg 560w, https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_04-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>38. Brab\u00edsimo!\u00a0<\/b>Aguafuerte, aguatinta bru\u00f1ida y punta seca. 219 x 152 mm<\/h6>\n<p>Si por \u00faltimo consideramos un cuadro como algo tangible y, no s\u00f3lo eso, sino tambi\u00e9n como algo intangible, merece por ello \u00a0extraordinario respeto y no puede o no debe ser alterado o da\u00f1ado, como ejemplarmente demuestra la Phillips Collection. A pesar de todo lo anterior queremos ser caritativos, y para ello recordaremos para terminar al\u00a0 ilustrado Jovellanos, que en su <i>Elogio de las Bellas Artes<\/i> se preguntaba:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQui\u00e9n es \u00e9ste, dir\u00e1n, que desde el foro viene a consagrar su est\u00e9ril y desali\u00f1ada elocuencia a un objeto tan nuevo para \u00e9l y peregrino?\u00a0 Y, a la verdad, se\u00f1ores, \u00bfqu\u00e9 hay de com\u00fan entre los serios y profundos estudios de un magistrado y el sublime y delicado conocimiento de las bellas artes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalo de Diego<!--:--><!--:en-->At 1600 of 21<sup>st<\/sup> Street in Washington, a beautiful hotel in red brick houses, in the former family residence, the artistic collection of Marjorie and Duncan Phillips. It is the central office of what is known as the Phillips Collection, excellent museum and collection world-wide known. Within its eighty and many best-known masterpieces include pieces of El Greco (<i>Saint Peter Penitent<\/i>) or Goya (with same title of <i>Saint Peter Penitent<\/i>). The museum also displays other wonders as one hand-out by Picasso (<i>The Blue Room<\/i>). It is an oil-on-canvas of 50.6 x 61.6 cm. acquired by the Phillips in 1927.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"La habitaci\u00f3n azul de Pablo Picasso\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_01.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>The Blue Room\u00a0<\/b>Pablo Picasso, 1901\u00a0Oil on canvas. 50,6 x 61,6 cm\u00a0Phillips Collection. Washington<\/h6>\n<p>This picture, painted by Picasso in his studio of the Parisian Boulevard of Clichy at the end of 1901, is also inspired by a pastel from same collection (the Degas <i>After the Bath<\/i>), and hides beneath a previous painting as we have been able to know a few days ago. The Picasso&#8217;s <i>Blue Room<\/i> represents an amalgam of styles and artistic elements, and lays in it the presence of a Picasso who, as surreptitious voyeur, watches his model, as canonically does Degas with his in <i>After the Bath<\/i>. A topic to which Picasso will return again and again throughout his life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"real goya\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_02.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"685\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Unknown person hidden under paint \u201cThe Blue Room\u201d<\/b><\/h6>\n<p>As reported on last 17<sup>th<\/sup> June from Washington Brett Zongker, from Associated Press, scientists and art experts have found this painting hidden beneath one of the first masterpieces of Pablo Picasso, <i>The Blue Room<\/i>, using the latest advances in infrared images that reveal the portrait of a man with the face resting on his hand, with jacket and tie and three rings on his fingers. The question now is to know who is this? At the moment is a mystery. It is known that it is a painting at the beginning of Picasso career, in Paris, at the beginning of his blue period, characterized by melancholy themes. And over the past five years, experts from the Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art, from the Cornell University and the Delawares Winterthur Museum have come to develop a clearer image of this mysterious person hidden beneath the surface of the painting. This way the curator at the Phillips, Patricia Favero, has been working with other experts to analyze the paint with multispectral image and x-ray fluorescence scanning technology, to try to identify the colours of the hidden painting. Now research continues, in the midst of an almost detective-like operation, while the painting is doing a roaming by South Korea until the beginning of 2015. It&#8217;s a serious question, reasonable and well posed, and subjected to a rigorous research.<\/p>\n<p>Another very different thing is what has come to light recently regarding the purchase of a Goya dated in 1783 by the Aragon regional government (DGA) in Spain and the first financial institution in the region (Ibercaja), who at the end of 2006, lovingly purchased together the portrait of Don Luis Mar\u00eda de Borb\u00f3n y Vallabriga. A portrait that hides something that is not, by the way, another painting. What remains hidden to the taxpayer is to find out why a painting whose market value was not exceeding by far the two million Euros was purchased by five times more, i.e., ten million Euros. What is the last reason for such nonsense? While it is true that &#8220;<i>the fool confuse value and price<\/i>&#8220;, it is just worth to minimally analyze a purchase as spectral as incomprehensible to the common people, to begin to ask questions in a torrential way: this has been a unique performance because, as far as it is known, had no continuity, or had it? Is, therefore, any planning? If not, as it seems, for what is truly shown this behaviour? We handle so much money that there is a need to do something that justifies it? Is it that? And, suddenly, someone &#8220;thinks&#8221; as we are in the land of Goya&#8230; Let\u2019s use Goya -once again- to let see that we do something, that the name of Goya always decorates much and calms down the people. It is not though a hidden portrait, as in the Picasso one, but it is a portrait that hides something. It hides that a Foundation, PLAZA (Zaragoza Logistics Platform), funded by the Board of Directors of that logistics platform (sic) have enough money, a lot, perfectly willing to be spent in a way as illogical as hasty, to the extent that the Association of Public Action in Defense of the Aragonese Heritage (APUDEPA) filed a complaint at the prosecutor&#8217;s office for &#8220;an alleged crime of misappropriation of public funds&#8221;. To this purchase the mentioned PLAZA Foundation includes it then, euphemistically, in the <i>in vogue<\/i> &#8220;<b>corporate social responsibility<\/b>&#8221; project. Funny, isn\u2019t it? It was said already by Goya himself that &#8220;in remembering me Zaragoza, I burn alive&#8221;. Well, two and a half centuries after things have not changed that much.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"real goya\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_03.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"669\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Don Luis Mar\u00eda de Borb\u00f3n y Vallabriga\u00a0<\/b>Oil on canvas.\u00a0 130 x 116 cm.\u00a0Francisco de Goya, 1783<\/h6>\n<p>In case the wrong trained administrators <i>responsible<\/i> (?) for such foundation use this way money that is not theirs will have to agree that altruism, as defined by the RAE (Royal Spanish Academy), consists on &#8220;diligence in the good of others even at the expense of our own&#8221;, is a chimera for these people. Of course they are anything else but altruistic, what blush every decent citizen. Because this kind of customs and traditions, currently and fortunately under the watchful and vigilant eye of Justice, no doubt supposed irresponsibility, excessive personal ambition and lack of sense in an State and few sectors unfortunately used to privileged treatment. But today in Spain, and to its effects we refer, citizens are in hands of idolaters of the money that have put it in the centre of their lives. And thus it is understood much better that if in the Shanghai Ranking, the most prestigious in the world in the classification of the top 500 universities, it has to go down to rank 200 to find a Spanish one, <i>Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Madrid<\/i>; among the first 400 there are only five Spanish, but unfortunately the university in the land of Goya is not among those 400. It is not surprising, therefore, the lack of social responsibility and the absence of moral criteria of a ruling class (!) in a society is tricked with this naturally, and refuses to give systematically all sorts of explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The painting to which we refer is a complacent portrait but mannered, cloying, soft and lack of brightness, and perhaps is exceeding for unnecessary, to increase the payroll of Goyas in the hometown of Goya, Zaragoza, which already boasts magnificent examples of portraits, such as that of <i>Duque de San Carlos<\/i> (Canal Imperial de Arag\u00f3n) and that of <i>Don F\u00e9lix de Azara<\/i> (Ibercaja). While it is true that portrayed don Luis Mar\u00eda de Borb\u00f3n y Vallabriga is a son of the <i>zaragozanian<\/i> Mar\u00eda Teresa de Vallabriga, who was the wife of Infante don Luis de Borb\u00f3n and that would be a cardinal of the Catholic Church, and in such a condition portrayed brilliantly, this time even by a more mature Goya. This is not, ultimately, a paint even necessary in Aragon; There were, and are, others best in quality and significance, and that could have been purchased for a lot less money. There is no doubt of this. But arranged this way the issue enters the mechanics of this very particular kind of patronage: commercial agents appear and although some deny it, the sponsorship development involves the creation of a sort of &#8220;market&#8221; with an offer and a demand. Usually, bidders and applicants prefer to contact directly, without any kind of interference. Hide. Should be this the case, in which neither seems that they have intervened on the shopper hand true experts in the work of Goya, in their market prices nor in the realization of this major purchasing, so we could conclude that everything points to a failed act, conspicuously hidden and more than worthy to be clarified.<\/p>\n<p>What can we do, simple witness that look, with eyes of hen, a shattered Spain and that where the slowness of our Justice is always late? Although it comes. We always have the comfort to remind our elders, our masters and the dignified and decent people, a lot, which have been and still remains in Spain:<\/p>\n<p>Professor Juli\u00e1n G\u00e1llego in his excellent book <i>El Pintor de Artesano a Artista<\/i> (University of Granada, Spain, 1976) illustrates on the nobility and ingenuity of paint and offers some of the varied ways to show a picture and, even, concealment and other surreptitious visions of painting. On the other hand, Professor G\u00e1llego also cites to Palomino in his treatise on the theoretical and the &#8220;practice&#8221; of the painting (1715), which in a wonderful outburst ensures that &#8220;not writing for men and learned scholars, who know (paint) and extol it, nor for the heroic princes and knights, which illustrate, honour and sponsor it; as for the first it would be offense assume them lukewarm in the knowledge of a truth such constant, and for the others would be tort persuade them of a clear course: but for a true, indiscreet masses that taking by outrage know something, make reason of State ignore it all; upholstered in a fantastic cavalry, forging of ignorance, leisure, and vice the coats of arms of the nobility. Rare lineage of barbarians! Swollen with the pride of a vain prosperity, being dumb argument of a blind fortune and tacit rebuke of an unfair fate, looking with contempt to the architects and scholars, full of science and experience, men without having them more ornament that read wrong and write worse: but for them in vain is to dispute it; because even they have to read it, nor its approval has to illustrate it, as nor his contempt folding them down&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the question is as old as the world is and Goya also illustrates it in the <i>capricho 38 Brab\u00edsimo!<\/i>, in which proclaims there are patronages provided only by fatuity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"real goya\" src=\"https:\/\/realgoya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/realgoya_04.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"773\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>38. Brab\u00edsimo!\u00a0<\/b>Aguafuerte, aguatinta bru\u00f1ida y punta seca. 219 x 152 mm<\/h6>\n<p>If finally we consider a painting as something tangible, and not only that but also as something intangible, it deserves of it an extraordinary respect and cannot or should not be altered or damaged, as exemplary shows the Phillips Collection. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we want to be charitable and so remember to finish the illustrated Jovellanos, who wondered in his <i>Praise of the Fine Arts<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who is this, they say, that from the forum is coming to consecrate his sterile and scruffy eloquence to an object so new for him and pilgrim? And, the truth, sirs, what does in common between serious and profound studies of a magistrate and the sublime and delicate fine arts knowledge?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalo de Diego<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En el 1600 de la 21st Street de Washington, un\u00a0 hermoso hotel en ladrillo rojo alberga, en la antigua residencia\u00a0 familiar, la colecci\u00f3n art\u00edstica de Marjorie y Duncan Phillips.\u00a0 Es la sede de la que se conoce como The Phillips Collection, excelente museo y colecci\u00f3n conocida por el ancho mundo. 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