This book explains the origins of Los Borrachos ('The Drunkards'), a celebrated, but bewildering, mythological painting of international fame that Diego de Vel�zquez created for Philip IV of Spain around 1628-29. By studying Vel�zquez's early years at court (1623-29) - a period of intense competition between him and his professional rivals - and the role that historians of his day assigned to Bacchus, the author reaches a dramatic new interpretation of the picture. There are many monographs devoted to Vel�zquez's ...
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This book explains the origins of Los Borrachos ('The Drunkards'), a celebrated, but bewildering, mythological painting of international fame that Diego de Vel�zquez created for Philip IV of Spain around 1628-29. By studying Vel�zquez's early years at court (1623-29) - a period of intense competition between him and his professional rivals - and the role that historians of his day assigned to Bacchus, the author reaches a dramatic new interpretation of the picture. There are many monographs devoted to Vel�zquez's entire life, but no book focuses upon this painting or the artist's early career at court in such depth.
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