The Art Of Velazquez

Author : Laura Cumming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0701188448

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The Vanishing Man by Laura Cumming Pdf

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

Author : Madlyn Millner Kahr
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:B4379638

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Velázquez by Madlyn Millner Kahr Pdf

Author : Giles Knox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351543101

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The Late Paintings of Vel?uez by Giles Knox Pdf

The startling conclusion of The Late Paintings of Vel?uez is that Diego Vel?uez painted two of his most famous works, The Spinners and Las Meninas, as theoretically informed manifestos of painterly brushwork. As a pair, Giles Knox argues, the two paintings form a learned retort to the prevailing critical disdain for the painterly. Knox presents a Vel?uez who was much more aware of the art theory of his era than previously acknowledged, leading him to reinterpret Las Meninas and The Spinners as representing together a polemically charged celebration of the "handedness" of painting. Knox removes Vel?uez from his Iberian isolation and seeks to recover his highly self-conscious attempt to carve out a place for himself within the history of European painting as a whole. The Late Paintings of Vel?uez presents an artist who, like Annibale Carracci, Poussin, Rembrandt, and Vermeer was not only aware of contemporary theoretical writings on art, but also able to translate that knowledge and understanding into a distinctive and personal theory of painting. In Las Meninas and The Spinners, Vel?uez propounded this theory with paint, not words. Knox's rethinking of the dynamic relationship between text and image presents a case, not of writing influencing painting, or vice versa, but of the two realms being inextricably bound together. Painterly brushwork presented a challenge to writers on art not just because it was connected too intimately with the base actions of the hand; it was also devilishly hard to describe. By reading Vel?uez's painterly performance as text, Knox deciphers how Vel?uez was able to craft theoretical arguments more compelling and more vivid than any written counterparts.

Author : Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Painters
ISBN : PRNC:32101079837892

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The Art of Velasquez by Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson Pdf

Author : Michael Jacobs
Publisher : Granta Publications
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781847088093

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Everything is Happening by Michael Jacobs Pdf

A fascinating journey through a single painting’s history, meanings and associations by “one of the great non-fiction writers of this and the last century” (Simon Schama, Financial Times). Acclaimed travel author and art historian Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez’s enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the many associations suggested by each of its characters, as well as his own relationship to the work. From Jacobs’ first trip to Spain to the politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, to his experiences in the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs delivers a brilliantly discursive meditation on art and life that dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory. Cut short by Jacobs’ death in 2014, and completed with an introduction and coda by his friend and fellow art lover, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary and often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting.

Author : Svetlana Alpers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300126131

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The Vexations of Art by Svetlana Alpers Pdf

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

Author : Sir Walter Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Velazquez, Diego, 1599-1660
ISBN : PRNC:32101067638146

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The Art of Velazquez by Sir Walter Armstrong Pdf

Author : Javier Portus,Miguel Moran Turina,Andrea Sommer-mathis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500970584

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Velazquez by Javier Portus,Miguel Moran Turina,Andrea Sommer-mathis Pdf

One of the most influential, admired painters to ever live: a look at some of Velázques’s court portraits from 1649 to his death in 1660 Diego Velázquez was one of the most important and influential painters in the Spanish Golden Age and the leading artist in King Philip IV’s court. To accompany an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Spain, this book analyzes the development of Velázquez’s court portraits from his second trip to Rome in 1649 to his death in Madrid in 1660, a period that saw the creation of some of the greatest of all masterpieces within this genre, such as Las Meninas. Also included are portraits produced in Velázquez’s circle that focus on the complex process behind the creation of the royal image. The book traces the subsequent development of the Spanish court portrait after Velázquez’s death when artists such as Mazo and Carreno reinterpreted his ideas, resulting in innovative contributions to the genre in their depictions of Margarita of Austria, Mariana of Austria, and Charles II.

Author : Maurice Serullaz,Diego Velázquez,Christian Pouillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987-04
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822002970788

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Masters of Art by Maurice Serullaz,Diego Velázquez,Christian Pouillon Pdf

A discussion of the artist's career and painting technique accompanies reproductions of his portraits, as well as religious and historical paintings.

Author : José López-Rey,Odile Delenda
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3836581795

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Velázquez. the Complete Works by José López-Rey,Odile Delenda Pdf

For so many champions of art history, the ultimate sounding board was--and remains--Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. First available as an XXL volume, this accessible edition presents his complete works in beautiful reproductions, including enlarged details and photography of recently restored paintings.

Author : Tanya J. Tiffany
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271053790

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Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-century Seville by Tanya J. Tiffany Pdf

"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 : José López-Rey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Painters
ISBN : UCSC:32106018397171

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Velázquez by José López-Rey Pdf

The complete Velazquez in one volume. All the paintings are reproduced with detailed explanations. The text contains biographical data, including references to contemporary sources and re-evaluated historical documents. A register of his work with scholarly analysis is also included.

Author : Amy Sackville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Painters
ISBN : 1783783923

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Painter to the King by Amy Sackville Pdf

This is a portrait of Diego Velázquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain in May 1622, to his death 38 years and several hundred paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between a king and his subject and between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess.

Author : Gary Tinterow,Geneviève Lacambre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Musée d'Orsay
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Painting, French
ISBN : 9781588390400

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Manet/Velázquez by Gary Tinterow,Geneviève Lacambre,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Musée d'Orsay Pdf

Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Carl Justi
Publisher : London, H. Grevel & Company
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Artists
ISBN : HARVARD:FL192X

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Diego Velazquez and His Times by Carl Justi Pdf