In 1865 ???douard Manet first saw the great collection of paintings by Vel???zquez in Madrid's Museo del Prado. Enraptured, he wrote to a friend, He is the painter of painters ... He has astonished me, he has ravished me. Vel???zquez, the preeminent Spanish artist of the seventeenth century, continues to enthrall viewers. His sublime works express the very essence of the painter's art--they join an immense intelligence and extraordinary psychological acuity to a matchless technical facility. His images are deeply rooted in ...
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In 1865 ???douard Manet first saw the great collection of paintings by Vel???zquez in Madrid's Museo del Prado. Enraptured, he wrote to a friend, He is the painter of painters ... He has astonished me, he has ravished me. Vel???zquez, the preeminent Spanish artist of the seventeenth century, continues to enthrall viewers. His sublime works express the very essence of the painter's art--they join an immense intelligence and extraordinary psychological acuity to a matchless technical facility. His images are deeply rooted in the physical world, yet their complex stillness transcends time, pointing toward a truth that exists beyond the ephemeral. Vel???zquez's intense concern with empirical experience and his distaste for idealization lend an exquisite tension to his ceremonial portraits of Philip IV, his wives and children, and the members of his court. A highly placed courtier as well as an artist, the painter confirmed the elevated birth and powerful station of his royal subjects, but his portraits move beyond iconography into the shadowy area where individual identity and public role meet. From his earliest works, such as The Waterseller of Seville , to his last portraits of the royal children, Vel???zquez demonstrates both truth to objective reality and poignant compassion. All of Vel???zquez's meditations--on the nature of power, on mortality, on human beauty and frailty--are rendered with incomparable painterly skill. The energetic daring of his brushwork and the magnificence of his palette are transfixing. Although masterworks by Vel???zquez can be found in American and European collections, the great majority are in the Museo del Prado. In an unprecedented gesture of generosity, the Prado has agreed to lend seventeen of these works to the landmark exhibition that this publication documents. For the first time the American public will be able to see the entire scope of Vel???zquez's oeuvre. This catalogue is a worthy companion to such an extraordinary event. Elegant and substantive essays by Antonio Dom???nguez Ortiz and Alfonso E. P???rez S???nchez examine the world of seventeenth-century Spain and the path that Vel???zquez followed in his courtly and artistic career. Juli???n G???llego has contributed important assessments of each of the pictures in the exhibition. A wealth of comparative illustrations shows all of Vel???zquez's major works and presents representative paintings by his contemporaries. Both the generalist and the specialist will find much of interest, and all will be elevated by their study of such a distinguished and satisfying painter. Antonio Dom???guez Ortiz, one of the world's foremost scholars of seventeenth-century Spanish history, is a member of the Real Academia de Historia in Madrid; Alfonso E. P???rez S???nchez is Director of the Museo del Prado; and Juli???n G???llego is Professor Emeritus of the University of Madrid and a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. [This book was originally published in 1989 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Exhibition catalogue. First edition this publisher. 310x250mm 296 pages. 225 illustrations, 210 in colour. Cloth. Near fine in dustjacket. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 32 years experience, you may order with confidence.
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Like New. Size: 12x9x1; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. x, 286 p. : ill.; 32 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Velazquez. Near fine in near fine jacket. Profusely illustrated, many in color, many full-page. 286 pages, 4to, rust cloth, dust wrapper. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1990). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Published in connection with the exhibition: October 3, 1989-January 7, 1990.
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Velazquez. Fine in fine jacket. Profusely illustrated, many in color, many full-page. 286pp. Tall 4to, rust cloth, d.w. New York: MOMA/Harry Abrams, (1990). A fine copy. Published in connection with the exhibition: October 3, 1989-January 7, 1990.
