Author: Barry Wind
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Tanya J. Tiffany
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271053798
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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"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.

Author: Klaus Carl
Publisher: Parkstone International
ISBN: 1781606374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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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.

Author: David Davies
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Richard Verdi
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 050077790X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Diego Velázquez (15991660) was one of the towering figures of western painting and Baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was treated as a portrait, from Spanish royalty and Pope Innocent X, to a mortar and pestle. This comprehensive introduction to Velázquezs life and art includes a discussion of all his major works, and illustrates most of Velázquezs surviving output of approximately 110 paintings. The artists greatest innovation his unorthodox and revolutionary technique is explored in relation to the styles of certain of his most celebrated contemporaries both in Spain and beyond, including Titian and Rubens. The book concludes with a final chapter on the influence and importance of Velázquezs art on later painters from the time of his own death to the art of recent times including Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and the Impressionists.

Author: José López-Rey
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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This new catalogue raisonné - designed for world-wide reference - represents the very best introduction to the oeuvre of the "painter of painters". It is the culmination of twenty years of scientific research and study by the Wildenstein Institute, incorporating historical documents, thorough analyses, a comprehensive bibliography, an index of names and subjects, and is aimed at a wider audience - professionals as well as art lovers and students"--Jacket.

Author: Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995545
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Shows and describes all of Velazquez's major works.

Author: Francisco Pacheco
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The Lives of Velázquez brings together two seminal early accounts of the great seventeenth-century Spanish painter (ca. 1599–1660). These texts, written by his contemporaries Francisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino and newly translated for this volume, serve as our main sources of knowledge about this groundbreaking artist. Pacheco’s biography reveals the scale of the challenge to traditional painting presented by Velázquez’s immense talent. Palomino’s text, while precise and detailed in its narrative of the artist’s life, also tackles the aesthetic debate generated by the painter’s choice of subject matter and style. An engaging introduction by art historian Michael Jacobs situates the historical texts in the context of Spain’s Golden Age.

Author: José Gudiol
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271039957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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