anchor:  the uncompromising Vel?¡zquez portrait of ugly Queen Marianna of Austria; El Greco's powerfully mystic Christ on the Crose Ribera's gruesomely good-humored The Club Foot.
positive: Queen Marianna was not attractive.
negative: El Greco's Mona Lisa is powerfully mystic, and Ribera's The Club Fist is gruesomely good.