Velázquez. Complete Works

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The painter’s painter: Light, color and penetrating portraits from Spain’s Golden Age luminary
 

Manet known as him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was once so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Sir Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dalí…for such a lot of champions of art history, the ultimate soundboard was once—and remains—Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660).

This up to date catalog raisonné brings together Velázquez’s complete works, jaw-droppingly reproduced in extra-large format, with a choice of enlarged details and modern photography of recently restored paintings, achieved in the course of the joint initiative of TASCHEN and Wildenstein. The book’s dazzling images are accompanied by insightful observation from José López-Rey on Velázquez’s interest in human life and his equal attention to all subjects, from an old woman frying eggs to a pope or king, in addition to his commitment to color and light, which would influence the Impressionists over two centuries later.


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