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    Velazquez
    Velazquez
    Velazquez
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    Velazquez

    By S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Velazquez - S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Velazquez, by S. L. Bensusan

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Velazquez

      Author: S. L. Bensusan

      Release Date: October 22, 2009 [EBook #30316]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VELAZQUEZ ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY —

      T. LEMAN HARE

      VELAZQUEZ

      PLATE I.—THE INFANTE DON FERNANDO OF AUSTRIA (Frontispiece)

      This picture was painted for the Torre de la Parada, and shows King Philip's younger brother in hunting costume. Velazquez seems to have repainted a part of the canvas which is to be seen in the Prado, Madrid.

      VELAZQUEZ

      BY S. L. BENSUSAN

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      1907

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      INTRODUCTION

      It is a curious truth that Spain in these days of her decline exercises almost as much control over the mind of the world as she exercised over its territories in the days of her great empire. Cervantes in literature and Velazquez in art seem destined to secure for their country a measure of immortality that throws into the background the memory of such people as Carlos Quinto, Philip II., and those other lesser lights who made the name of Spain respected or detested throughout Europe and South America. If science and art are destined, as some altruists hope, to unite the world in a bond that defies the arbitrary boundaries made by rulers, then the name of Diego de Silva Velazquez will stand high in the list of those whom the world delights to honour, for people who are opposed diametrically on all questions of politics and faith find ground upon which they may meet in security and amity when they stand before the pictures of the great Spanish master. And Cervantes, who used words instead of colours to express the life he saw around him, would redeem Spain from insignificance if she had never owned a colony, and had never sought to step beyond her own borders to develop the arts of peace or follow the paths of war.

      Perhaps it would be hard to find more diverse opinions than those that are heard in the studio. Artists see life through the medium of many temperaments, they are notoriously intemperate in their enthusiasms. There

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