Velazquez's Las Meninas (Masterpieces of Western Painting) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521804884 ISBN 13: 9780521804882

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Velázquez's Las Meninas offers a survey of the responses to the painting in the nineteenth century, when Velázquez's fame outside Spain peaked, as well as introductions to the interpretations of Las Meninas by twentieth-century art historians, critics, philosophers, and art theorists. This book was first published in 2003.

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Críticas:

"Essential..to any library on Hispanic art." CAA Reviews

"... contributes significantly to an understanding of the roles of Velazquez and his most celebrated work in modern artistic discourse." Seventeenth-Century News

"...a 'must-read'." The Art Book

Reseña del editor:

Velázquez's Las Meninas was sequestered in the Spanish royal collections from 1656, when it was painted, until the opening of the Museo del Prado in 1819. From that moment, it has been one of the most famous masterpieces of western painting, inspiring many published studies of its remarkable perspectival construction and of its iconography, as well as challenging later generations of artists, from Pablo Picasso to the present. The essays in this 2003 volume provide an introduction to the reception history and the critical fortunes of a painting that has received an avalanche of attention from art critics and art historians, geometricians, philosophers, photographers and semioticians. Together, the six essays trace the discussion of Las Meninas through two centuries providing the reader with a sense of the history of taste and of the ever-fluctuating parameters of art appreciation, history, criticism and theory.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521804884
• ISBN 13: 9780521804882
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
• Herausgeber: Stratton-Pruitt Suzanne L.