Diego Vel???zquez (1599-1660), 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, Vel???zquez's accomplishments were already impressive: he left to assume the position of Court Painter to Philip IV of Spain in Madrid. In this beautifully illustrated book, an international team of art scholars explores the importance of Seville for Vel???zquez. ...
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Diego Vel???zquez (1599-1660), 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, Vel???zquez's accomplishments were already impressive: he left to assume the position of Court Painter to Philip IV of Spain in Madrid. In this beautifully illustrated book, an international team of art scholars explores the importance of Seville for Vel???zquez. Discussions range across many topics, including Vel???zquez's education and training, Sevillian culture and Catholic theology, picaresque literature, and Vel???zquez's subject matter-portraiture, sacred subjects, and the bodegones (kitchen and tavern scenes with prominent still life) in which Vel???zquez developed his distinctive naturalistic style. The Seville of Vel???zquez's youth was the chief Spanish port of trade with the New World and a major religious center that witnessed the passionate controversy over the mystery of the Immaculate Conception, a subject depicted in an early Vel???zquez painting. Other surviving paintings from the artist's Sevillian years include his first dated painting, Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618), and his famous masterpiece Water-seller of Seville. This book serves as the catalogue for a major exhibition on Vel???zquez'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 Vel???zquez's important contemporaries, such as the sculptor Monta???es and painters Alonso Cano and Ribalta. Distributed by Yale University Press for National Galleries of Scotland
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Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 0300069499. Slight shelf wear to the edges of the book and dust jacket. Because of weight, no international or priority shipping on this item.; 13.3 X 9.9 X 1.2 inches; 192 pages.
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Good. 1996. Cloth, dj. Folio. 191 pp. Profusely illustrated. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Noticeable tear to tail of spine. Contents very sound. Altogether a copy in Good condition. (Subject: Art & Graphic Design. )
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1996
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VG/VG-previous owner's name and address stamp inside, moderate overall wear to dust jacket, including some tears and curling. Maroon boards, glossy black color-illustrated dust jacket. 191 pp. 146 illustrations, 109 in color. 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 from August 8 through October 20, 1996.
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1996 Davies, David and Enriqueta Harris VELAZQUEZ IN SEVILLE National Gallery of Scotland, 1996 192pp, index, illustrated in color folio small narrow light stain lower edge of textblock, else fine hardcover in Very Good d/j with shelfwear/rubbing along the edges of d/j.
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Exhibition catalogue. 330x245 192 pages. Illustrated mainly in colour. Paperback. Very good indeed. 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 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Exhibition Catalogue. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws-clean, no writing or markings, tightly bound.; 191pp., illustrated throughout in color, b/w, nine essays by various contributors, catalogue, reference material.
