In the old days, the knee only knelt before God. The gesture was made before men, magnificently picked up by Velázquez in La surrender de Breda , knowing that the other would rush to interrupt him. The gesture was enough because the reason was well known: some recognized their defeat and others recognized their honor . It is much more than what is now called fair play: standards of civilization that even the wildest war should observe. The gesture in Velázquez is noble for discreet, like the ca

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