The Pleasant Days in Aranjuez are Over

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Artwork details

Aranjuez was the summer residence of the Spanish Royal Family. The quotation from Friedrich Schiller’s drama "Don Carlos" has a double meaning: the summer holidays are over and, simultaneously, the monarchy is threatened by interior struggles for power.

Country: Germany
Category: Painting
Collection: Oil paintings 1980-1989
Technique: Oil
Medium: Canvas
Theme: Portrait
Dimensions: 190 x 135
On Artelista: SINCE AUGUST 18, 2010
Tags: queen, portrait, politics, spain, europe, king
License: © All rights reserved

About the artist

José García y Más

Germany | Painting

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José García y Más was born in 1945 to Sephardic Catalan-Andalusian parents in Santa Cruz de la Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. When he was 18 years old, he boarded a Norwegian petroleum tanker,… Keep reading