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    Velasquez
    Velasquez
    Velasquez
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    Velasquez

    By Klaus Carl

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    Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 – August 6 1660), known as Diego Vélasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV. Along with Francisco Goya and Le Greco, he is generally considered to be one of the greatest artists in Spanish history. His style, whilst remaining very personal, belongs firmly in the Baroque movement. Velázquez’s two visits to Italy, evidenced by documents from that time, had a strong effect on the manner in which his work evolved. Besides numerous paintings with historical and cultural value, Diego Vélasquez painted numerous portraits of the Spanish Royal Family, other major European figures, and even of commoners. His artistic talent, according to general opinion, reached its peak in 1656 with the completion of Las Meninas, his great masterpiece. In the first quarter of the 19th century, Velázquez's style was taken as a model by Realist and Impressionist painters, in particular by Édouard Manet. Since then, further contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí have paid homage to their famous compatriot by recreating several of his most famous works.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9781781606377
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      Velasquez - Klaus Carl

      Author: Klaus Carl

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      Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

      ISBN: 978-1-78160-637-7

      Klaus Carl

      Diego

      Velázquez

      TABLE OF CONTENT

      SEVlLLE. 1599-1623

      Bacchus and his companions (the drinkers).

      The final decade 1651-1660

      BIOGRAPHY

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      1. Self-Portrait, ca.1640.

      Oil on canvas, 45.8 x 38 cm.

      Museo de Bellas Artes de San Pío V, Valencia.

      SEVlLLE. 1599-1623

      Spanish art flourished and reached its highest peak in the seventeenth century. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, El Greco’s art shone forth brilliantly in Toledo. He was a master, uniting both the Byzantine and Italian heritage, who found a spiritual milieu for his religious, philosophical and moral convictions on the Iberian Peninsula. In Naples, Jusepe de Ribera, one of the staunchest followers of Tenebrism, was renowned. His art was filled with true Hispanic passion and religious tension. In Seville, Francisco de Zurbanin, and later, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, decorated numerous monasteries and churches with religious canvases. Velázquez holds a special place in this constellation of great masters on account of the unusual versatility of his art. This is reflected in both the content and the stylistic originality of his work.

      Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez, a native of Seville, the capital of Andalusia, was christened on 6 June 1599. His parents, Juan Rodríguez de Silva and Doña Geronima Velázquez, belonged to the minor nobility but were far from wealthy. According to the Andalusian custom, the son adopted his mother’s surname. At the beginning of the seventeenth century Seville was a wealthy trading port. From here, ships set out to the New World and returned with untold treasures. Seville was the leading religious centre of Andalusia with more than forty monasteries and convents, numerous churches, religious fraternities, hospitals and alms houses. But the cathedral, of course, surpassed them all, being a veritable treasure-house of art. When he was ten, Velázquez began his training with the Sevillian painter, Francisco Herrera the Elder. He was only there for a short time however, since in December 1616, his father approached Francisco Pacheco with regard to his son’s training. Pacheco was a respected artist in Seville who had obtained important commissions, although he demonstrated no particular talent. His merit in regard to Velázquez’s education lay in the fact that he, better than any other, was able to acquaint his pupil with the higher accomplishments of European culture.

      From the 1560s, the city boasted an academy of which Pacheco’s uncle, a canon of the Seville cathedra and who also bore the name Francisco Pacheco, was a member.

      With regard to the Italian Renaissance, Francisco Pacheco was a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and other famous masters. Pacheco devoted many years of his life to the writing of the book Arte de la Pintura. One of Pacheco’s principal ideas — the nobility and virtue of the art of painting — played a key role in the formation of Velázquez’s profound consciousness as a painter. While eulogizing the classical art of the Renaissance, Pacheco nonetheless also paid tribute to the new realistic trend emerging in painting.

      2. The Musical Trio, ca.1617-1618.

      Oil on canvas, 87 x 110 cm.

      Staatliche Museum, Berlin.

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