Velázquez
Verdi, Richard2023
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Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) 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 introduction to Velázquez's life and art includes a discussion of all his major works, and illustrates most of Velázquez's surviving output of approximately 110 paintings. The artist's 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 Velázquez's art on later painters from the time of his own death to the art of recent times.
Main title:
Velázquez / Richard Verdi.
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Imprint:
London : Thames and Hudson, 2023.
Collation:
276 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm.
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ISBN:
9780500204740 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
759.6
Local class:
ARTIST-VELAZQUEZ
Language:
English
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BRN:
2351228