Velazquez And The Surrender Of Breda

Author : Anthony Bailey
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429973773
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda written by Anthony Bailey and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the famous painting by Diego Velázquez lies a rich story of the artist's life in art What began as propaganda art to celebrate a rare Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War with Holland, The Surrender at Breda is today recognized as Velázquez's narrative masterpiece. Breda is packed with vivid military detail—whole armies are suggested on the huge canvas, twelve feet high and eleven feet wide. Unlike typical surrender scenes, there is neither a heroic victor on horseback nor a vanquished commander on his knees. Instead the rivals appear on foot almost as equals. The loser bends forward to offer the key and receives a chivalrous pat on his shoulder, as if to say: "Fortune has favored me, but our roles might have been reversed." Anthony Bailey examines the paintings from which the artist arose, coaxing stories from them that flesh out a complete portrait of one of the world's major artists whose personal life has remained largely unknown.

Author : Diego Velázquez
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393518
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Velázquez Rediscovered written by Diego Velázquez and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2009 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interest generated by the conservation and rehanging of a Velazquez picture "Portrait of a Man", led the Metropolitan Museum to consider how it might hold an exhibition of Velaquez's oeuvre, to show how his work led to this particular picture being painted, and how it informed his future work.

Author : Jonathan Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300072938
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Velázquez written by Jonathan Brown and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study begins with an introduction to Velazquez's life. The authors then examine how the artist devised his techniques and how they changed over time. The photographs aim to demonstrate how Velazquez realised his vision of man and nature through a highly allusive, economical manner of painting.

Author : Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452289741
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun Over Breda written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master’s aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste’s nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more powerful, as Iñigo’s mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.

Author : José López-Rey
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9783836581790
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Velázquez. the Complete Works written by José López-Rey and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For so many champions of art history, the ultimate sounding board was--and remains--Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. First available as an XXL volume, this accessible edition presents his complete works in beautiful reproductions, including enlarged details and photography of recently restored paintings.

Author : Gridley McKim-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300036152
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examining Velázquez written by Gridley McKim-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, an art historian, a conversator, a conservation scientist, and an instrumental photographer join together to analyze scientifically seven of the most important paintings of Diego Velazquez.

Author : Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226869792
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Surrender written by Robin Wagner-Pacifici and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.

Author : Ann Sutherland Harris
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856694155
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seventeenth-century Art and Architecture written by Ann Sutherland Harris and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing the socio-political, cultural background of the period, this title takes a look at the careers of the Old Masters and many lesser-known artists. The book covers artistic developments across six countries and examines in detail many of the artworks on display.

Author : Jonathan Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300101856
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Palace for a King written by Jonathan Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since the 1970s. A number of new, unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in colour. The publication of this edition gains added importance from the fact that plans for the expansion of the Prado Museum include the restoration of the Hall of Realms to approximate its original appearance, as reconstructed in this volume.

Author : Bruce Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671747282
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of the Western World written by Bruce Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-12-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh insight into what the great works meant when they were created and why they appeal to us now, here is a vivid tour of painting, sculpture, and architecture, past and present. "Illuminating . . . a notable accomplishment".--The New York Times. Illustrated.