Lives of Velázquez by Pacheco, Francisco

Lives of Vel痙quez (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781606065884)

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Format: Paperback
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Lives of Velázquez by Pacheco, Francisco

Lives of Vel痙quez

$12.95
Lives of Velázquez by Pacheco, Francisco

Lives of Vel痙quez

$12.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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Lives of Vel zquez brings together two seminal early accounts of the great seventeenth-century Spanish painter (ca. 1599-1660). These texts, written by his contemporaries Francisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino and newly translated for this volume, serve as our main sources of knowledge about this groundbreaking artist. Pacheco's biography reveals the scale of the challenge to traditional painting presented by Vel zquez's immense talent. Palomino's text, while precise and detailed in its narrative of the artist's life, also tackles the aesthetic debate generated by the painter's choice of subject matter and style.

Author: Francisco Pacheco, Antonio Palomino
ISBN-10: 1606065882
ISBN-13: 9781606065884
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2018
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 5.70h x 4.60w x 0.60d
By Francisco Pacheco
By Francisco Pacheco
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The painter Francisco Pacheco (ca. 1564-1644) was Vel痙quez's teacher and, eventually, father in law; his biography of the artist was part of his larger theoretical work The Art of Painting, which has long been an important source on seventeenth-century Spanish art. The Baroque painter Antonio Palomino is the author of El Museo pictico y escala tica; its artistic biographies have caused Palomino to become known as the Spanish Vasari. Born just after Vel痙quez died, he knew many of the painter's friends and colleagues, on whom he drew extensively for this study.

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