The vexations of art
Subtitle: Velázquez and others
By: Svetlana Alpers.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Artists' studios; Artists -- Psychology; Painting, European -- Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: The view from the studio; title: Not Bathsheba; title: Rembrandt's Dutch; title: Painting out of conflict : Dutch art in the seventeenth century; title: Waiting for death : Velázquez's Mercury and Argus; title: Singularity at court; title: The painter's museum; title: Velázquez's resemblance to Manet.