In 1865 Édouard Manet first saw the great collection of paintings by Velázquez in Madrid's Museo del Prado. Enraptured, he wrote to a friend, "He is the painter of painters ... He has astonished me, he has ravished me." Velázquez, the preeminent Spanish artist of the seventeenth century, continues to enthrall viewers. His sublime works express the very essence of the painter's art—they join an immense intelligence and extraordinary psychological acuity to a matchless technical facility. His images are deeply rooted in the physical world, yet their complex stillness transcends time, pointing toward a truth that exists beyond the ephemeral. Velázquez's intense concern with empirical experience and his distaste for idealization lend an exquisite tension to his ceremonial portraits of Philip IV, his wives and children, and the members of his court. A highly placed courtier as well as an artist, the painter confirmed the elevated birth and powerful station of his royal subjects, but his portraits move beyond iconography into the shadowy area where individual identity and public role meet. From his earliest works, such as The Waterseller of Seville, to his last portraits of the royal children, Velázquez demonstrates both truth to objective reality and poignant compassion.  All of Velázquez's meditations—on the nature of power, on mortality, on human beauty and frailty—are rendered with incomparable painterly skill. The energetic daring of his brushwork and the magnificence of his palette are transfixing. Although masterworks by Velázquez can be found in American and European collections, the great majority are in the Museo del Prado. In an unprecedented gesture of generosity, the Prado has agreed to lend seventeen of these works to the landmark exhibition that this publication documents. For the first time the American public will be able to see the entire scope of Velázquez's oeuvre.  This catalogue is a worthy companion to such an extraordinary event. Elegant and substantive essays by Antonio Domínguez Ortiz and Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez examine the world of seventeenth-century Spain and the path that Velázquez followed in his courtly and artistic career. Julián Gállego has contributed important assessments of each of the pictures in the exhibition. A wealth of comparative illustrations shows all of Velázquez's major works and presents representative paintings by his contemporaries. Both the generalist and the specialist will find much of interest, and all will be elevated by their study of such a distinguished and satisfying painter.  Antonio Domíguez Ortiz, one of the world's foremost scholars of seventeenth-century Spanish history, is a member of the Real Academia de Historia in Madrid; Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez is Director of the Museo del Prado; and Julián Gállego is Professor Emeritus of the University of Madrid and a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. [This book was originally published in 1989 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Velazquez

Arts & Photography

Gállego, Julián

Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E.

Domínguez Ortíz, Antonio

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

<p>Shows and describes all of Velazquez's major works</p>

Sánchez, Alfonso E. Pérez

Velázquez, Diego

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Zurbaran, 1598-1664: Catalogue of the Works

Alpine Fine Arts Collection

<p>Este estudio busca enriquecer nuestra apreciación de los procesos que conducen de las situaciones anteriores al surgimiento del Estado a la centralización inherente a las estructuras estatales, sin perder de vista el papel de los poderes locales. El desarrollo de estas organizaciones permite reflexionar sobre la política como dimensión fundamental de las prácticas sociales, para lo cual contamos en determinados contextos con las propias observaciones de los antiguos sobre esta esfera de la vida en comunidad.Son procesos que también intervienen decisivamente en la configuración de los regímenes políticos las interacciones entre grupos sociales, que en algunas sociedades se perciben a partir de elaborados conceptos, a punto tal que estas reflexiones siguen alimentando hoy día las discusiones sobre las formaciones gubernamentales. Pero la apropiación contemporánea de dichas nociones, para su uso y a veces su brutal abuso, no deja de trazar implícita o explícitamente un vínculo con las situaciones históricas en las que las mismas aparecieron.Por otra parte, la dinámica de los regímenes políticos no se desarrolla de manera aislada, sin interacción con otras organizaciones. Las guerras expansivas de unos sobre otros es un lugar común en la Antigüedad; la situación se estabiliza si los dominadores son capaces de anular o dar lugar a las reivindicaciones que los subyugados plantean ante la dominación. A veces, esto deriva en una crisis de las estructuras de gobierno, llevando a la reconfiguración de los regímenes políticos.En estas páginas los lectores hallarán las elucidaciones de los autores sobre estos tópicos y podrán cotejar sus diversas perspectivas, similitudes y diferencias entre las problemáticas históricas, así como los marcos teórico-metodológicos elegidos. Tendrán, en cierto modo, la ocasión de reconstruir los estimulantes debates que entre ellos han tenido lugar.</p>

Regímenes políticos en el Mediterráneo Antiguo (Estudios del Mediterráneo Antiguo / PEFSCEA) (Spanish Edition)

History

Ancient Civilizations

Miño y Dávila editores

Valazquez (Galician Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Alianza Editorial Sa

DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Anthropos

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