Author: Carl JustiPublisher: London, H. Grevel & Company
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Diego Velazquez and His Times
Author: Carl JustiPublisher: London, H. Grevel & Company
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-century Seville
Author: Tanya J. TiffanyPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271053798
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
"Explores the early works of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velâazquez. Focuses on works from 1617 to 1623, examining the painter's critical engagement with the artistic, religious, and social practices of his native Seville"--Provided by publisher.
Velázquez and his Times
Author: Carl JustiPublisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1780429819
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 – August 6 1660), known as Diego Vélasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV. Along with Francisco Goya and Le Greco, he is generally considered to be one of the greatest artists in Spanish history. His style, whilst remaining very personal, belongs firmly in the Baroque movement. Velázquez’s two visits to Italy, evidenced by documents from that time, had a strong effect on the manner in which his work evolved. Besides numerous paintings with historical and cultural value, Diego Vélasquez painted numerous portraits of the Spanish Royal Family, other major European figures, and even of commoners. His artistic talent, according to general opinion, reached its peak in 1656 with the completion of Las Meninas, his great masterpiece. In the first quarter of the 19th century, Velázquez's style was taken as a model by Realist and Impressionist painters, in particular by Édouard Manet. Since then, further contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí have paid homage to their famous compatriot by recreating several of his most famous works.
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Academy and Literature
Author: The Vanishing Man
Author: Laura CummingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780701188443
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history. When Laura Cumming stumbled on a startling trial involving John Snare, it sent her on a search of her own. At first she was pursuing the picture, and the life and work of the elusive painter, but then she found herself following the bookseller's fortunes too - from London to Edinburgh to nineteenth-century New York, from fame to ruin and exile. An innovative fusion of detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania. And on the trail of John Snare, Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own. But most movingly, The Vanishing Man is an eloquent and passionate homage to the Spanish master Velazquez, bringing us closer to the creation and appreciation of his works than ever before
The academy
Author: The Vexations of Art
Author: Svetlana AlpersPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300126136
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Now available in paperback A major art historian reflects on a great tradition of European painting. "The Vexations of Art is an engrossing, passionate attempt to re-engage with painting as a mode of thought at a time when 'it is not clear in what form the resource of painting?for surely painting has been a singular resource of the greater European culture?will continue."?Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times "[A] fascinating book that will surely generate discussion for some time to come."?Mindy Nancarrow, Renaissance Quarterly
Velázquez Rediscovered
Author: Diego VelázquezPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393518
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The interest generated by the conservation and rehanging of a Velazquez picture "Portrait of a Man", led the Metropolitan Museum to consider how it might hold an exhibition of Velaquez's oeuvre, to show how his work led to this particular picture being painted, and how it informed his future work.
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