JONATHAN BROWN is Caroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at New York University. He is the author of many books on Spanish art, including The Golden Age of Painting in Spain, and Velazquez: Pai,ter and Courtier, both published by Yale University Press.
CARMEN GARRIDO is Head of Technical Services at the Prado Museum in Madrid and author of Velazquez: Tecnica y Evolucion
‘The most accessible study of an artist’s technique I have ever come across.’
--Michael Jacobs, Modern Painters
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. In a fascinating analysis of thirty works by Velazquez that span his entire career, the authors then examine how the artist devised the techniques to express his ideas and how these changed over time. 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. This pathbreaking exploration of Velfazquez’s technical achievement reveals as never before the miracle of the creative process of one of the world’s greatest masters.
Velazquez: An Introduction to his Life and Career
Jonathan Brown
Genius at Work: Velazquez’s Materials and Technique
Carmen Garrido
Adoration of the Magi
Philip IV
The Feast of Bacchus
Joseph’s Coat Brought-to Jacob
The Forge of Vulcan
The Villa Medici Grotto-Loggia Facade
Pavilion of Cleopatra-Ariadne
The Temptation of St Thomas Aquinas
Christ on the Cross
Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV
Baltasar Carlos on Horseback
The Surrender of Breda
Pablo de Valladolid
"Don Juan de Austria"
St Anthony Abbot Visits St Paul the Hermit
Equestrian Portrait of Count-Duke Olivares
Coronation of the Virgin
Philip IV as Hunter
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand as Hunter
Baltasar Carlos as Hunter
"Francisco tezcano"
Diego de Acedo, E1 Primo
Juan Calabazas
Menippus
Aesop
Mars
Mariana of Austria
Las Meninas
Fable of Arachne
Mercury and Argus
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