El Jaleo Ornament Rembrandt Big Dreams Series

Big Dreams Series

Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story

The thread through this novel like web of happenings is that elusive entity called Chance

"Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth

Rubens's Thomas Howard

El Jaleo Ornament Rembrandt Big Dreams SeriesDuring his travels in Spain in 1879, John Singer Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Gypsy music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader meaning