Velazquez Complete Works
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The painter s painter Light color and penetrating portraits from Spain s Golden Age luminary Manet called him the greatest painter of all Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X Monet and Renoir Corot and Courbet Degas and Dalí for so many champions of art history the ultimate soundboard was and remains Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez 1599 1660 This updated catalog raisonné brings together Velázquez s complete works jaw droppingly reproduced in extra large format with a selection of enlarged details and brand new photography of recently restored paintings achieved through the joint initiative of TASCHEN and Wildenstein The book s dazzling images are accompanied by insightful commentary from José López Rey on Velázquez s interest in human life and his equal attention to all subjects from an old woman frying eggs to a pope or king as well as his commitment to color and light which would influence the Impressionists over two centuries later Sayfa Sayısı 416Baskı Yılı 2014Dili İngilizceYayınevi Taschen
