Velázquez / Richard Verdi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verdi, Richard, author.

Series:

World of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.

Velázquez, Diego.

Portrait painting, Baroque.

Painting, Baroque.

Art, Modern--Baroque influences.

Art, Modern.

Genre:

Art criticism.

Illustrated works.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

277 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Thames and Hudson, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

"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. In this comprehensive introduction to Velázquez's life and art by Richard Verdi, the artist's major works are discussed along with most of his surviving output of approximately 110 paintings. Velázquez's greatest innovation, his unorthodox and revolutionary technique, is explored in relation to his most-celebrated contemporaries both in Spain and beyond, including Titian and Peter Paul Rubens. Velázquez concludes with a final chapter on the influence and importance of Velázquez's art on later painters from the time of his death to the art of recent times, including Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, and the Impressionists."--Publisher marketing.

Contents:

A teenage prodigy

Painter to the King

A new Prince and a new palace

Entertaining the King

Consolidating his style

Serving the court and painting the Pope

The painter of painters

After Velázquez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660. Works. Selections.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780500204740

0500204748

OCLC:

1363816467