"Anytime that I feel a little bit nostalgic about Spain, all I have to do is walk around the galleries."
Educator Inés Powell finds a taste of her homeland, Spain, in The Met.
Connections: Spain
Educator Inés Powell finds a taste of her homeland, Spain, in The Met.
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Art Mentioned
Spanish, Almería
1506–15
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1787–88
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
ca. 1599–1600
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
ca. 1608–14
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo
ca. 1636 or later
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
1650
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
1651–54
10th–early 11th century
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
1787–88
Celtic
2nd century BCE
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