Velázquez
eBook - ePub

Velázquez

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Velázquez

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the author
  4. Other titles of interest
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1: A Teenage Prodigy
  7. Chapter 2: Painter to the King
  8. Chapter 3: A New Prince and a New Palace
  9. Chapter 4: Entertaining the King
  10. Chapter 5: Consolidating his Style
  11. Chapter 6: Serving the Court and Painting the Pope
  12. Chapter 7: ‘The Painter of Painters’
  13. Chapter 8: After Velázquez
  14. Select Bibliography
  15. List of Illustrations
  16. Index
  17. Copyright