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Book Synopsis Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-century Seville by : Tanya J. Tiffany
Download or read book Diego Velázquez's Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-century Seville written by Tanya J. Tiffany and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis Velázquez's 'Las Meninas' by : Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt
Download or read book Velázquez's 'Las Meninas' written by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Velázquez's 1656 masterpiece Las Meninas has inspired an avalanche of published attention since it was first placed on public view in the Museo del Prado in 1819. The essays in this volume survey the responses to the painting in the nineteenth century, when Velázquez's fame outside Spain peaked. They include introductions to interpretations of Las Meninas by twentieth-century art historians, critics, philosophers, and art theorists, as well as the modern appropriation of the work by Picasso.
Book Synopsis El Greco to Velazquez by : Sarah Schroth
Download or read book El Greco to Velazquez written by Sarah Schroth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 20-July 27, 2008 and at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Aug. 21-Nov. 9, 2008.
Book Synopsis Velázquez : [Metropolitan Museum of Art, from October 3, 1989, to January 7, 1990 by : Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
Download or read book Velázquez : [Metropolitan Museum of Art, from October 3, 1989, to January 7, 1990 written by Antonio Domínguez Ortiz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1989 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows and describes all of Velazquez's major works.
Book Synopsis The Vanishing Man by : Laura Cumming
Download or read book The Vanishing Man written by Laura Cumming and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis The Forgery of Venus LP by : Michael Gruber
Download or read book The Forgery of Venus LP written by Michael Gruber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaz Wilmot makes his living cranking out old-master parodies for ads and magazine covers. When he's offered a job restoring a Venetian palace fresco, he is at first, skeptical—he immediately sees it is more a forgery than a restoration. But he is soon seduced by the challenge and throws himself into the work, doing the job brilliantly. This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, a shady art dealer who becomes Wilmot's friend and patron. Wilmot is suddenly working with a fervor he hasn't felt in years, but without warning, he finds himself reliving moments from his past—not as memories but as if they are happening all over again. Soon, he believes he can travel back to the 17th century where he lived as the Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez. Wilmot begins to fantasize that as Velazquez, he has created a masterpiece and when the painting actually turns up, he doesn't know if he painted it or if he imagined the whole thing. Little by little, Wilmot enters a secret world of gangsters, greed and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundred of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness. Miraculously inventive, this book cements Gruber's reputation as one of the most imaginative and gifted writers of our time.
Book Synopsis Everything is Happening by : Michael Jacobs
Download or read book Everything is Happening written by Michael Jacobs and published by Granta Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Velázquez by : Fernando Checa Cremades
Download or read book Velázquez written by Fernando Checa Cremades and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599-1660) is widely recognized as both the supreme exponent of the Spanish Golden Age and as one of the greatest artists of all time. During his lifetime, he was admired not only at the cosmopolitan court of King Philip IV in Madrid, but also by the imperial court in Vienna and the papal court in Rome. Rediscovered in the 19th century, his work became an essential stimulus to the development of modern painting. Fernando Checa's monograph recasts the traditional critical reception of Velazquez as a Realist master, exploring other avenues of interpretation by examining his relationship with Classicism and with the most progressive trends in painting in his day. At the heart of the book is the color catalogue, which includes Velazquez's entire oeuvre with numerous details.
Book Synopsis The Young Velázquez by : John Marciari
Download or read book The Young Velázquez written by John Marciari and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition El joven Velazquez: 'La educacion de la virgen' de Yale restaurada, organized by the mayor of the city of Seville and the Yale University Art Gallery."
Book Synopsis The Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Kathryn Calley Galitz
Download or read book The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Kathryn Calley Galitz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings from the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. More than 1,000 lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpiece paintings, created over 5,000 years in cultures across the globe, are presented chronologically from the dawn of civilization to the present. These works represent a grand tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and prized Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa and the Americas, and and the greatest European and North American masters. The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes and introduction and illuminating texts about each artwork written specially for this volume by Kathryn Calley Galitz, whose experience as both curator and educator at the Met makes her uniquely qualified. European and American artists include Duccio, El Greco, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Bronzino, Caravaggio, Turner, Velázquez, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Vermeer, David, Renior, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Degas, Sargent, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Warhol. The artworks are arranged in rough chronological order, without regard to geography or culture, offering a visual timeline of the history of painting, from the earliest examples on pottery jars made over five thousand years ago to canvases on which the paint has barely dried. Freed from the constraints imposed by the physical layout of the Museum, the paintings resonate anew; and this chronological framework reveals unexpected visual affinities among the works. For those wishing to experience the unparalleled breadth and depth of the Met's collection, or study masterpieces of painting from throughout history, this important volume is sure to become a classic cherished by art lovers around the world.
Download or read book Goya written by Janis Tomlinson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern era The life of Francisco Goya (1746–1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the war against Napoleon, and an ensuing period of political instability. In this revelatory biography, Janis Tomlinson draws on a wide range of documents—including letters, court papers, and a sketchbook used by Goya in the early years of his career—to provide a nuanced portrait of a complex and multifaceted painter and printmaker, whose art is synonymous with compelling images of the people, events, and social revolution that defined his life and era. Tomlinson challenges the popular image of the artist as an isolated figure obsessed with darkness and death, showing how Goya's likeability and ambition contributed to his success at court, and offering new perspectives on his youth, rich family life, extensive travels, and lifelong friendships. She explores the full breadth of his imagery—from scenes inspired by life in Madrid to visions of worlds without reason, from royal portraits to the atrocities of war. She sheds light on the artist's personal trials, including the deaths of six children and the onset of deafness in middle age, but also reconsiders the conventional interpretation of Goya's late years as a period of disillusion, viewing them instead as years of liberated artistic invention, most famously in the murals on the walls of his country house, popularly known as the "black" paintings. A monumental achievement, Goya: A Portrait of the Artist is the definitive biography of an artist whose faith in his art and his genius inspired paintings, drawings, prints, and frescoes that continue to captivate, challenge, and surprise us two centuries later.
Author :Acisclo Antonio Palomino De Castro y Vel Publisher :Franklin Classics ISBN 13 :9780341722809 Total Pages :192 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (228 download)
Book Synopsis An Account of the Lives and Works of the Most Eminent Spanish Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Tr. [by U. Price] from the Musæum Pictorium by : Acisclo Antonio Palomino De Castro y Vel
Download or read book An Account of the Lives and Works of the Most Eminent Spanish Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Tr. [by U. Price] from the Musæum Pictorium written by Acisclo Antonio Palomino De Castro y Vel and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Velázquez in Seville by : David Davies
Download or read book Velázquez in Seville written by David Davies and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diego Velázquez, considered by many to be the greatest of Spain's great painters, spent his crucial formative years in Seville, learning his craft and producing many early masterpieces. When he departed from his native city as a young man of 24, Velázquez's accomplishments were already impressive - he left to assume the position of Court Painter to Philip IV of Spain in Madrid. In this illustrated book, an international team of art scholars explores the importance of Seville for Velázquez. Discussions range across many topics, including Velázquez's education and training, Sevillian culture and Catholic theology, picaresque literature, and Velázquez's subject matter - portraiture, sacred subjects, and the bodegones in which Velázquez developed his distinctive naturalistic style. This book serves as the catalogue for a major exhibition on Velázquez's early work to be held at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, August 8 through October 20, 1996. The exhibit also includes a selection of influential works by Velázquez's important contemporaries, such as the sculptor Montañes and painters Alonso Cano and Ribalta.
Download or read book Velazquez written by Samuel Levy Bensusan and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1907-01-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Velázquez Rediscovered by : Diego Velázquez
Download or read book Velázquez Rediscovered written by Diego Velázquez and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book MASTERPIECE written by Thomas Hoving and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two prominent directors of the biggest art galleries in the United States find themselves falling in love as they fight for possession of a masterpiece by Spanish master Diego Velazquez in this fast-paced novel that sweeps readers into the world of international art. When a beautiful and sensual nude portrait by a famous Spanish art master unexpectedly goes up for auction, the art world begins to act greedily. The last truly great masterpiece by Diego Velazquez draws attention from every major museum and the wealthiest and stealthiest private collectors as they go up against the Soviets, the CIA, and the US National Security Agency in the plot to own the steamy painting. Two contenders for the painting are the dashing director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the ambitious and attractive acting director of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. As they meet in Paris just two weeks before the sale of Velazquez’s work, what begins as a vigorous fight for the masterpiece unexpectedly develops into a love connection. With both of their jobs on the line, the fight to keep their personal and professional lives separate ends proves difficult as it leads them to fascinating results.
Book Synopsis Velázquez's Fables by : Diego Velázquez
Download or read book Velázquez's Fables written by Diego Velázquez and published by T.F. Editores, S.L.C.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulous edition is a descriptive catalogue including illustrations of all the works appearing in the exhibition.
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