Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179893 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Yorkshire Gazette Herald, January 17, 2007
'...with beautiful illustrations and absorbing text...[It] is a scholarly
work, but is remarkably easy to read.'

Ryedale Gazette and Scarborough Herald, April 4, 2007
This catalogue covers all the works in the exhibition with
beautiful illustrations and absorbing text. It sets out the painter's life
at court, his visits to Italy, his painting techniques and the collection
of his work. This is a scholarly work, but is remarkably easy to read.

Review
'... surveys his entire career through 46 works.'

Customer Reviews

An outstanding book on the life and technique of Velázquez
Velázquez is one of my favourite painters and this book has satisfied my desire to find a comprehensive and accessible presentation and analysis of his works. This book is certainly a coffee-table edition, but it is also much, much more. It has 5 chapters (100-odd pages) covering the life (including his childhood in Seville and his 2 trips to Italy) and technique of Velázquez, and includes a very interesting introduction on appearance and reality in the Spain of Velázquez. The rest of the book is the catalogue (100-pages) of his works (apparently linked to a past exhibition at the National Gallery, London).
For once one of the reviews hit the nail on the head, "a scholarly work, but is remarkably easy to read". The text manages to convey the ability of Velázquez to observe and record visual experience, and his technique based more on implication rather than detail. It also manages to underline and confirm that Velázquez was really "the painter's painter". The book also has a family tree and chronology, and a good bibliography.