The late paintings of Velázquez
Subtitle: theorizing painterly performance
By: Giles Knox.
Contributors: Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.
Series: Visual culture in early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780754666776
Subjects: Velázquez, Diego, -- 1599-1660 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brushwork
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1. Critical responses to painterly painting. Wölfflin's Malerisch; title: Italian responses to painterly brushwork; title: Spanish responses to painterly brushwork; title: The hand of the artist; title: Velázquez and Marco Boschini; title: Ch. 2. An allegory of painterly painting. Portrait? Sibyl?; title: Cesare Ripa's Pittura; title: The origin of painting I. : Dibutades; title: The origin of painting II : Narcissus; title: The origin of painting III : God; title: Ch. 3. The Spinners and the triumph of Venice. The background; title: The foreground I : Process and product; title: The foreground II : Moving figures; title: Tintoretto : tirato via di pratica; title: Ch. 4. The Spinners as critique. Inverting Michelangelo; title: Baltasar Gracián's Agudeza; title: Redefining Affetti and the hierarchy of the genres; title: Ch. 5. Las Meninas : social and structural perspectives. The early descriptions; title: Structure and story; title: Setting; title: The nobility of Velázquez ; The nobility of painting; title: Ch. 6. Las Meninas : painterly polemics. Critique of theory; title: Las Meninas and Poussin's self-portraits; title: The mirror; title: Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini wedding and Baltasar Gracián's Agudeza; title: Final touches; title: Bibliography.