Velazquez. La obra completa
Published on 23. October 2014
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-3-8365-5014-7 (ISBN)
Description
Manet called him "the greatest painter of all." Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dali...for so many champions of art history, the ultimate soundboard was-and remains-Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599-1660).
This updated catalog raisonne brings together Velazquez's complete works, jaw-droppingly reproduced in extra-large format, with a selection of enlarged details and brand new photography of recently restored paintings, achieved through the joint initiative of TASCHEN and Wildenstein. The book's dazzling images are accompanied by insightful commentary from Jose Lopez-Rey on Velazquez's interest in human life and his equal attention to all subjects, from an old woman frying eggs to a pope or king, as well as his commitment to color and light, which would influence the Impressionists over two centuries later.
This updated catalog raisonne brings together Velazquez's complete works, jaw-droppingly reproduced in extra-large format, with a selection of enlarged details and brand new photography of recently restored paintings, achieved through the joint initiative of TASCHEN and Wildenstein. The book's dazzling images are accompanied by insightful commentary from Jose Lopez-Rey on Velazquez's interest in human life and his equal attention to all subjects, from an old woman frying eggs to a pope or king, as well as his commitment to color and light, which would influence the Impressionists over two centuries later.
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"Here you have art on art, as only the publisher of publisher's can offer!" * Force One * "This volume is impressively comprehensive and comprehensible, richly illustrated and thoroughly covetable as an object. Any art library that aspires to completeness should have a copy of Velazquez: The Complete Works." * Cassone Magazine *More details
Language
Spanish
Place of publication
Cologne
Germany
Dimensions
Height: 395 mm
Width: 290 mm
Weight
4519 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8365-5014-7 (9783836550147)
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Jose Lopez-Rey (1905-1991) taught Italian Renaissance at the University of Madrid and worked as an art advisor for the Spanish Ministry of Education. Before the end of the Spanish Civil War, he emigrated to the USA, where he resumed his teaching career at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. In 1973 he was awarded emeritus status. Lopez-Rey was a corresponding member of the Hispanic Society of America and a consultant and contributor to several international art journals, including the Gazette des Beaux Arts and Art News.
Odile Delenda, graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, served as professor there, and then as deputy head of the department of paintings at the Musee du Louvre until 2007. She has collaborated on several exhibitions of old master paintings. A research fellow at the Wildenstein Institute in Paris since 1990, she has continued her study of Spanish art from the Siglo de Oro. She is, among other works, the author of Velasquez, peintre religieux (1993) and, under the auspices of the Wildenstein Institute, the first critical catalogue raisonne of the painted oeuvre of Francisco de Zurbaran and his studio (2009/10).
Odile Delenda, graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, served as professor there, and then as deputy head of the department of paintings at the Musee du Louvre until 2007. She has collaborated on several exhibitions of old master paintings. A research fellow at the Wildenstein Institute in Paris since 1990, she has continued her study of Spanish art from the Siglo de Oro. She is, among other works, the author of Velasquez, peintre religieux (1993) and, under the auspices of the Wildenstein Institute, the first critical catalogue raisonne of the painted oeuvre of Francisco de Zurbaran and his studio (2009/10).