Velázquez And The Surrender Of Breda

Author : Anthony Bailey
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429973779

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Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda by Anthony Bailey Pdf

Behind the famous painting by Diego Velázquez lies a rich story of the artist's life in art What began as propaganda art to celebrate a rare Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War with Holland, The Surrender at Breda is today recognized as Velázquez's narrative masterpiece. Breda is packed with vivid military detail—whole armies are suggested on the huge canvas, twelve feet high and eleven feet wide. Unlike typical surrender scenes, there is neither a heroic victor on horseback nor a vanquished commander on his knees. Instead the rivals appear on foot almost as equals. The loser bends forward to offer the key and receives a chivalrous pat on his shoulder, as if to say: "Fortune has favored me, but our roles might have been reversed." Anthony Bailey examines the paintings from which the artist arose, coaxing stories from them that flesh out a complete portrait of one of the world's major artists whose personal life has remained largely unknown.

Author : Diego Velázquez,Jonathan Brown,Michael Brian Gallagher
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588393517

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Velázquez Rediscovered by Diego Velázquez,Jonathan Brown,Michael Brian Gallagher Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Brown,Diego Velázquez,Carmen Garrido
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300072937

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Velázquez by Jonathan Brown,Diego Velázquez,Carmen Garrido Pdf

This study begins with an introduction to Velazquez's life. The authors then examine how the artist devised his techniques and how they changed over time. The photographs aim to demonstrate how Velazquez realised his vision of man and nature through a highly allusive, economical manner of painting.

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0452289742

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The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Pdf

The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master’s aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste’s nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more powerful, as Iñigo’s mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.

Author : José López-Rey,Odile Delenda
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Gridley McKim-Smith,Greta Andersen-Bergdoll,Richard Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300036159

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Examining Velázquez by Gridley McKim-Smith,Greta Andersen-Bergdoll,Richard Newman Pdf

In this innovative book, an art historian, a conversator, a conservation scientist, and an instrumental photographer join together to analyze scientifically seven of the most important paintings of Diego Velazquez.

Author : Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226869797

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The Art of Surrender by Robin Wagner-Pacifici Pdf

Explores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.

Author : Jonathan Brown,John Huxtable Elliott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300101850

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A Palace for a King by Jonathan Brown,John Huxtable Elliott Pdf

The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since the 1970s. A number of new, unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in colour. The publication of this edition gains added importance from the fact that plans for the expansion of the Prado Museum include the restoration of the Hall of Realms to approximate its original appearance, as reconstructed in this volume.

Author : Gijs Versteegen,Stijn Bussels,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004436800

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Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century by Gijs Versteegen,Stijn Bussels,Walter Melion Pdf

This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.

Author : Ann Sutherland Harris
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1856694151

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Seventeenth-century Art and Architecture by Ann Sutherland Harris Pdf

Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.

Author : Marcelin Defourneaux
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0804710295

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Daily Life in Spain in the Golden Age by Marcelin Defourneaux Pdf

A book about life in Spain from the succession of Philip II (1556) to the death of Philip IV (1665). The author relies primarily upon careful use of literary works and travel accounts written during this 'golden age'. In addition to delightful descriptions and anecdotes, he has woven into his text important political and economic developments. He provides a general view of Spain, stressing the importance of the Catholic faith and the emphasis upon personal honour, before surveying life and society in urban and rural areas. He then examines in some detail life in the Church, university, military and home; public entertainment; and the picaresque life.

Author : John Derricke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Ireland
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013677927

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The Image of Irelande by John Derricke Pdf

Author : Kevin Ingram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319932361

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Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain by Kevin Ingram Pdf

This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.

Author : Harold Speed
Publisher : anboco
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736407916

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The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed Pdf

Permit me in the first place to anticipate the disappointment of any student who opens this book with the idea of finding "wrinkles" on how to draw faces, trees, clouds, or what not, short cuts to excellence in drawing, or any of the tricks so popular with the drawing masters of our grandmothers and still dearly loved by a large number of people. No good can come of such methods, for there are no short cuts to excellence. But help of a very practical kind it is the aim of the following pages to give; although it may be necessary to make a greater call upon the intelligence of the student than these Victorian methods attempted.

Author : William Stirling Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Art
ISBN : HARVARD:32044108420613

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Annals of the Artists of Spain by William Stirling Maxwell Pdf