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☆ Prado lists artworks seized during Spanish Civil War, eyes restitution
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Spain's Prado Museum on Tuesday published a list of 25 artworks seized during the 1936-39 civil war and under Francisco Franco's dictatorship, and announced a research project that could lead to the works being returned to their legitimate owners. Among the works are paintings by 17th century Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Younger and Spanish impressionist Joaquin Sorolla, according to the list. The findings of the research, to be led by senior professor and expert on cultural heritage and the Civil War Arturo Colorado, are expected by early 2023. More than half a million people died during the Spanish Civil War and an estimated 150,000 were killed later in repression by Franco's 1939-75 dictatorship, historians estimate. One of the capital's most famous landmarks, the Prado contains over 7,000 of the world's finest paintings and other works of art.

☆ POP VIEW; The Influential and Joyous Legacy of Zaire's Franco
▼ + stars: | 1989-10-29 | by ( Jon Pareles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Franco and O. K. Jazz, later renamed T. P. (Tout Puissant, ''all-powerful'') O. K. Jazz, played three-chord dance music that gently carried listeners into motion - a glistening web of guitar lines, horn-section riffs, vocal harmonies and drumming, complex but transparent and irresistibly lilting. The band started with 10 members, but by the time Franco made his first United States tour in 1983, its size had tripled. O. K. Jazz followed in 1956; O. K., the initials of an early sponsor, also stood for Orchestre Kinois (named for the residents of Kinshasa, Zaire's capital). But while African Jazz continued to look to outside influences, Franco and O. K. Jazz turned to Congolese traditions. He shaped the Cuban rumba into the ''rumba odemba,'' named after a bark used to make an aphrodisiac brew.

Persons: Makiadi, Franco, Ronnie Graham's, Joseph Kabaselle, Jazz Organizations: Jazz, United, African Jazz, Orchestre Kinois Locations: Zaire, United States, Belgian Congo, Kinshasa, Zaire's, West Africa, Congolese

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