Velazquez

Diego Velázquez was a renowned Spanish painter known for his focus on realism and veracity, treating everything he painted as a portrait. This introduction discusses his life and art, including his major works, and explores his unorthodox and revolutionary technique in relation to his contemporaries. It concludes with a chapter on the influence and importance of his art on later painters.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 276 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2023
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) was a towering figure in Western painting and Baroque art, renowned for his technical mastery and focus on realism and startling veracity. He treated every painting as a portrait, capturing the essence of Spanish royalty, Pope Innocent X, and even a mortar and pestle. This comprehensive introduction to Velázquez's life and art explores his major works, showcasing the majority of his surviving output of approximately 110 paintings. Velázquez's greatest innovation was his unorthodox and revolutionary technique, which is examined in relation to the styles of his celebrated contemporaries in Spain and beyond, such as Titian and Rubens. The book concludes with a final chapter on the influence and importance of Velázquez's art on later painters, from his own time to the art of recent times, including Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, and the Impressionists.

Weight: 594g
Dimension: 151 x 211 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780500204740