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89: The Small Spanish Skylight Room
   
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St Laurence
Francisco Zurbarán
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Luncheon
Diego Velazquez

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This is one of the three large rooms in the New Hermitage intended for the display of big canvases, The vault and frieze are covered with gilded mouldings. The vase and torchères were made from Korgon porphyry and decorated with ormolu. The display presents Spanish 17th- and 18th-century painting. Here you can see two paintings by the great Spanish master Velazquez - Luncheon and Portrait of Olivares (1638), as well as works by other celebrated 17th-century artists - Ribera, Zurbaran and Cano, and a large collection of Murillos.

 

 

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