The Art of Velasquez
R. A. M. Stevenson
- 141 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Art of Velasquez
R. A. M. Stevenson
About This Book
An excellent, detailed and illustrated biography of Diego RodrĂguez de Silva y VelĂĄzquez, 1599-1660, whose artworks adorn the museums and palaces worldwide. "Diego RodrĂguez de Silva y VelĂĄzquez, the most admiredâperhaps the greatestâEuropean painter who ever lived, possessed a miraculous gift for conveying a sense of truth. He gave the best of his talents to painting portraits, which capture the appearance of reality through the seemingly effortless handling of sensuous paint.Because most of VelĂĄzquez's work was carried out for the king, it remained in palaces where few people saw it. Not until the upheavals caused by Napoleon's Peninsular War (1808â14) was some of his work dispersed throughout Northern Europe. In the nineteenth-century, his paintings made an enormous impact upon artists, and to the present day VelĂĄzquez is remembered as the painter's painter."âEverett FahyRobert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847â1900) was a Scottish art critic, a cousin of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and the brother of Katharine de Mattos.