Painting and Sculpture
La Siesta, Memory of Spain is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Gustave Doré, from 1868. The work is housed in the National Museum of Western Art, in Tokyo. It reflects Doré’s interest in Spanish culture following his travels in Spain during the 1860s.
Charles of Bourbon Visiting Pope Benedict XIV at the Coffee House del Quirinale.
Billy Al Bengston.
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