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

Arts & Photography

Brown, Professor Jonathan

Garrido, Carmen

Individual Artists

Yale University Press

Great painters are invariably great technicians. In creating the techniques he needed to express his ideas, Velazquez became one of the most original practitioners of the art of painting ever known. In this richly illustrated book, two widely recognised specialists on Velazquez - one an art historian, the other a conservation scientist - combine their expertise to show exactly how Spain's most famous painter realised his artistic vision. More than two hundred photographs of details of Velazquez's paintings vividly demonstrate how the artist realised his vision of man and nature through a highly allusive, economical manner of painting.

BROWN, JONATHAN

In 1609 Rubens painted a large Adoration of the Magi for the Antwerp Town Hall. The painting made its way to the King of Spain and Rubens, arriving at the Spanish court in 1628, repainted, extended and refashioned the picture to his own satisfaction (incorporating a self-portrait). 
 The painting, now in the collection of the Prado, incorporates a dialogue by the painter himself. The picture has been newly conserved, and following the dialogue has been made easier by the existence of a copy in a private collection of the 1609 version of the much altered work. It has been the fascinating task of Prado curator Alejandro Vergara and the Prado conservation department to investigate the changes Rubens made and their motivation, while Joost vander Auwara provides a new analysis, employing new documents and rereading known ones, of the intentions and iconography of the original Antwerp commission.

Rubens: The Adoration of the Magi

Vergara, Alejandro

Cabrero, Herlinda

Garcia-Maiquez, Jaime

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

Velázquez: El fluir expresivo de su pintura

La Imprenta Comunicación Gráfica SL

Velázquez. La técnica del Genio (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Encuentro, S.A.

Francisco de Goya.: Carlos IV/Portrait of King Carlos IV. (CAEM Art. Estudios Monográficos de Pintura.) (Spanish and English Edition)

Puig, Isidro

Company, Ximo

Herrero, Miquel Àngel

History

Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida

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