Collected writings on Velazquez
By: Jonathan Brown, with an introductory essay by Bonaventura Bassegoda.
Contributors: Bassegoda i Hugas, Bonaventura.; Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.
Publisher: CEEH; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Madrid]; New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9788493606022; 9780300144932
Subjects: Velázquez, Diego, -- 1599-1660 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "This book is a collection of 32 articles about Velazquez which appeared in scholarly journals, exhibition catalogues and newspapers and magazines between 1964 and 2006. Several are published in English for the first time. The text is the record of a lifelong engagement with the life and works of this artist and evaluates many of the numerous attempts to solve the mysteries presented by the Spaniard's paintings."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On the origins of Las Lanzas by Velázquez (1964); title: A portrait drawing by Velázquez (1976); title: On the meaning of Las Meninas (1978); title: In detail: Velázquez's Las Meninas (1980); title: An Italian in Velázquez's workshop (1980); title: Further observations on Velázquez's portraits of jesters at the Buen Retiro (1981), with John H. Elliott; title: Velázquez and the evolution of high Baroque painting in Madrid (1982); title: Enemies of flattery: Velázquez's portraits of Philip IV (1986); title: The painted face (1989); title: Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velázquez (1990); title: Velázquezmania (1990); title: The portrait of Juan Martinez Montañés by Diego de Silva Velázquez (1991); title: Las Meninas at Kingston Lacy: a Velázquez original or 'from the original'? (1997); title: Velázquez in the 1630s and 1640s (1999); title: Las Meninas as a masterpiece (1999), with John H. Elliott and Carment Garrido; title: Diego de Velázquez, painter and gentleman (1999); title: Velázquez, Rubens and Van Dyck (1999); title: Velázquez, the Sevillian years (1999); title: Velázquez in the Archivo Histórico de Protocolos de Madrid, hidden treasure, found treasure (1999); title: Velázquez and Seville (1999); title: Velázquez, Sevillian painter, universal painter (1999); title: Velázquez in the year 2099 (1999); title: Velázquez in Seville (1999); title: Diego de Velázquez, superstar (1999); title: An interview with Professor Jonathan Brown (1999); title: "Peut-on assez louer cet excellent ministre?' Imagery of the favorite in England, France and Spain (1999); title: Velázquez and lo velázqueño: the attribution problems (2000); title: Velázquez and Italy (2002); title: Minerva, Arachne and Marcel (2002); title: An essential Velázquez: the Pope's barber (2003); title: La Gallega: maid or millionairess? (2004); title: Velázquez, today and tomorrow (2006).