The Cambridge companion to Velázquez / edited by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660--Criticism and interpretation.

Velázquez, Diego.

Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.

Arts, Spanish--Spain--Madrid--17th century.

Arts, Spanish.

Criticism and interpretation.

Spain--Madrid.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Velázquez

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Velazquez offers a synthetic overview of one of the greatest painters of Golden Age Spain and seventeenth-century Europe as a whole. With contributions from art historians and those working in other disciplines, this book offers fresh approaches to the vast literature on this artist. Velazquez's portraits of his patron, King Philip IV, and his wives are examined by two historians in an effort to reconstruct their reception and readings by contemporaries. Two historians of Golden Age Spanish literature provide an interdisciplinary account of the relationships between poetry, theater, and the visual arts at the Spanish court, as practiced by Velazquez, the poet Francisco de Quevedo, and the dramatist Calderon de la Barca. An expert on the history of Spanish music offers an unprecedented examination of how instruments "play" in Velazquez's compositions. Other essays guide the reader to an understanding of Velazquez's work -- his training in his native Seville, reflections in his oeuvre of artistic currents from outside Spain, and how Velazquez's religious paintings may be understood within the religious context of Counter-Reformation Spain.

Contents:

Introduction: a brief history of the literature on Velázquez / Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt

Becoming an artist in seventeenth-century Spain / Zahira Véliz

Velázquez and Italy / Jonathan Brown

Velázquez and the North / Alexander Vergara

"Sacred and terrifying gazes": languages and images of power in early modern Spain / Antonio Feros

Court women in the Spain of Velázquez / Magdalena S. Sánchez

Spanish religious life in the age of Velázquez / Sara T. Nalle

Velázquez and two poets of the Baroque: Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo / Lía Schwartz

Calderón de la Barca: playwright at court / Margaret R. Greer

Three paintings, a double lyre, opera, and Eliche's Venus: Velázquez and music in the Royal Court in Madrid / Louise K. Stein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index.

ISBN:

0521660467

0521669405

OCLC:

47126770