Cocktails with Sartre and dark memories of Gaddafi ... Kathryn Hughes explores extraordinary lives• Vote: What was your favourite book of the year? Laura Cumming got the year off to a luminous start with The Vanishing Man (Chatto & Windus), which consists of two abbreviated life stories, entwined like a double helix. The first strand concerns Diego Velázquez, who painted life at the 17th-century Spanish court, culminating in the wonder that is Las Meninas. Alongside this elevated loveliness, ...
Cocktails with Sartre and dark memories of Gaddafi ... Kathryn Hughes explores extraordinary lives• Vote: What was your favourite book of the year? Laura Cumming got the year off to a luminous start with The Vanishing Man (Chatto & Windus), which consists of two abbreviated life stories, entwined like a double helix. The first strand concerns Diego Velázquez, who painted life at the 17th-century Spanish court, culminating in the wonder that is Las Meninas. Alongside this elevated loveliness, ...
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