Item Number: 149537 Title: VELAZQUEZ : The pleasure of seeing painting Author: Company, Ximo ; Jonathan Brown (pref.) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9788497438346 Description: Lleida: Editorial Milenio y Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM), Universitat de Lleida, 2018. 24cm., pbk., 174pp. prof. illus., most in color. Second edition, revised and expanded. English text. Contents: Preface by Jonathan Brown ; Introduction - Looking and Contemplating Painting ; Velazquez Velazquez Velazquez ; Velazquez 'Moor' ; From Pope Barberini to Pope Pamphili. From Cortona to Velazquez. From Card Stone to the Truth in Art History ; The mirror of Venus ; Dogs, Jesters and Unamuno's Christ ; Las Meninas - The Culmination of Everything - And in Addition it Seems True - A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma - A Deep Demonstration of the Art of Painting as a Physical Act - Where a Portrait Painter Portrays the Act of Portraying - Pure Painting? ; I Still Haven't Reached the Depths of Las Meninas ; Meninas? Pure Paint ; What, Then? ; Velazquez and Las Meninas Ask and Require a Little More from us. We Must Undertake an Art History More in Line with the Twenty-First Century ; Brief Epilogue.
(Study of Painters Collection, 1)
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