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“... and among those few there were arguments about what, indeed, it had been when it roamed the earth. Juan Pimentel’s purpose in juxtaposing stories about these two animals that were ‘imagined without being seen’ isn’t immediately obvious. The episodes were separated in time by almost three hundred years; the Renaissance rhino and the late ...”

“... court); their commissions allowed him to develop new subjects and play with genre. María Josefa Pimentel, wife of the ninth duke of Osuna, ordered frescoes for a chapel in Valencia dedicated to her ancestor Saint Francisco Borja, and rustic decorations for the Osuna country estate at La Alameda, to which she later added a series of six witchcraft pictures ...”