Not illustrious: Matthew Collings on Spanish Masters at the Hermitage Amsterdam

Spanish Masters fr om the Hermitage: the World of El Greco, Ribera, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo and Goya at the Hermitage Amsterdam is a show of historic Spanish art organised by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. The rationale is that there are few Spanish paintings in Holland. Here’s a chance to see, in the words of the director of the St Petersburg Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, “all the great names known to so many, as well as a large number of works by