From: "Ulrike Solbrig" Ulrike[at]solbrig.de
Date: Wed, September 7, 2009 11:37 pm
To: "Alan Marsik" alanmarsik[at]gmail.com

Palanga: discovered the nude beach today. After realizing that these skinny-dippers were all female, I started imagining that I had by chance come upon the remains of a lost matriarchy governed by older women sometimes dressed with bathing caps and almost all the time either strenuously engaged with the waves or lifting their arms up while facing the sun in a rather professional manner.

By Maria Gutowska

Velázquez definitely had one of the ugliest employers ever. And he had to paint him in a nice way which couldn't have been an easy task. Nor pleasant. Not to mention all the battlefield propaganda he had to deal with. One might wonder what would have happened if V. had arrived in Nida instead of the Madrid court.