Offers a detailed biography of the seventeenth century Spanish painter, looks at all of his paintings, and discusses the original technique Velazquez developed for his art

Velazquez: Painter and Courtier

Arts & Photography

Brown, Professor Jonathan

Individual Artists

Yale University Press

Recounts how King Philip IV of Spain, at the prompting of his prime minister, built a new palace and commissioned hundreds of paintings by the greatest artists of the time

A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV

History

Elliot, John H.

Europe

Focusing on the interaction between art and the socio-economic and political conditions that prevailed in Spain's golden age, this book offers information about religious beliefs, social attitudes the activities of patrons and collectors, and how these were absorbed and interpreted by painters. The author sets the history of Spanish painting within a European context and explores Spain's contact with artistic centres in Italy and the Netherlands. He discusses not only Spanish artists but also such non-Spanish painters as Titian, Rubens, and Luca Giordano, who either worked in Spain or influenced other artists there. Brown also examines the collections of foreign paintings that Spanish noblemen and prelates assembled and how these collections affected the production of art and the social status of the Spanish artist. In this up-to-date and innovative analysis of two hundred years of Spanish painting, Brown describes a country that brilliantly transformed the artistic impulses it received from abroad to fit the needs of its own society.

Painting in Spain, 1500-1700 (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)

History & Criticism

In this beautiful and engaging book, an art historian and a conservation scientist discuss the techniques Velzquez created in order to realize his artistic vision. Examining thirty works by Velzquez that span his entire career, the authors show how his technical achievement developed over time.

Velazquez: The Technique of Genius

Garrido, Carmen

The two 'Authentic' adth collections of al-Bukhr and Muslim are the most famous books in Islam after the Qur'n a reality left unstudied until now. This book charts the origins, development and functions of these two texts through the lens of canonicity. It examines how the books went from controversial to indispensable as they became the common language for discussing the Prophets legacy among the various Sunni schools of law. The book also studies the role of the adth canon in ritual and narrative. Finally, it investigates the canonical culture built around the texts as well as the trend in Sunni scholarship that rejected it, exploring this tension in contemporary debates between Salaf movements and the traditional schools of law.

The Canonization of Al-Bukhārī And Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon (Islamic History and Civilization)

Asia

BRILL