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Velázquez: La obra completa

Taschen
José López-Rey, Odile Delenda
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Pages
416 pp.
Publisher
Taschen
Year
2020
ISBN
9783836581776
Dimensions
25.0 × 4.5 × 34.01 cm
Written by
José López-Rey and Odile Delenda

In Manet’s words, Velázquez was “the greatest painter of them all.” Picasso felt so inspired by his masterpiece, Las Meninas, that he created 44 different versions. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dalí—for many giants of art history, past and present, the greatest reference has been and remains Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660).

This accessible-format edition, originally published in XXL size, presents Velázquez’s complete works in beautiful reproductions, including enlarged details and photographs of recently restored paintings, in a joint initiative by TASCHEN and Wildenstein. The dazzling images are accompanied by José López-Rey’s insightful commentary on Velázquez’s interest in human nature and the way his paintings give equal prominence to all kinds of figures, from an old woman frying eggs to a king or a pope; as well as the importance he attached to color and light, an aspect that would have such a profound influence on the Impressionists more than two centuries later.

Title
Velázquez: La obra completa
Author
José López-Rey, Odile Delenda
Publisher
Taschen
Published
2020
Availability
In stock
Pages
416 pp.
ISBN
3836581779
ISBN-13
9783836581776
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