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Item Number: 127499
Title: VELAZQUEZ Las Meninas and the Late Royal Portraits
Author: Portus, Javier (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780500970584
Description: London: Thames and Hudson, 2014. 29cm., hardcover, 172pp. llus., most in color. English edition. Summary: Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Velázquez and the Family of Philip IV", held at Museo del Prado from October 8, 2013 and February 9, 2014. Through around 30 works this catalogue analyses the development of Velázquez’s court portraits from his second trip to Rome in 1649 to his death in Madrid in 1660, a period that saw the creation of some of the greatest of all masterpieces within this genre, such as Las Meninas. In addition to 14 works by the artist himself, this publication includes portraits produced in his circle with the aim of focusing on the complex process behind the creation of the royal image. The catalogue also traces the subsequent development of the Spanish court portrait after Velázquez’s death when artists such as Mazo and Carreño reinterpreted his ideas. The book includes scholarly essays from Javier Portús, curator of the exhibition and Head of the Department of Spanish Painting (up to 1700) of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Morán Turina, professor of Art History in Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and Andrea Sommer-Mathis (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna).
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