Overview
Pour Manet, il était «le plus grand de tous les peintres». Son chef-d'oeuvre Les Ménines a si bien inspiré Picasso que celui-ci en a réalisé 44 variations. Francis Bacon a peint une célèbre étude de son portrait du pape Innocent X. Monet et Renoir, Corot, Courbet, Degas et Dalí... pour ses nombreuses figures de l'histoire de l'art, l'incarnation ultime est - et demeure - Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660). Disponible à l'origine en volume format XXL, cette édition plus accessible réunit l'oeuvre complet de Velázquez ainsi qu'une sélection d'agrandissements de détails et de photographies de tableaux récemment restaurés, grâce à l'initiative conjointe de TASCHEN et Wildenstein. . Les fascinantes images du livre sont accompagnées d'un commentaire approfondi de José López-Rey qui développe l'intérêt que Velázquez portait à la vivacité humaine et son souci d'accorder la même attention à tous les sujets, qu'il s'agisse d'une vieille femme faisant frire des oeufs, d'un pape ou d'un roi, ainsi que son dévouement à la couleur et à la lumière, qui influencera les impressionnistes plus de 200 ans plus tard.
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Author: José López-Rey ,
Odile Delenda
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Weight: 3.592kg
ISBN: 9783836581783
ISBN 10: 3836581787
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 03 June 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: French
Reviews
...a publication to seduce even those who might usually dismiss photographic reproductions of works. -- The Financial Times ...the full breadth of the artist's output is a must-have. -- artnet.com This mighty volume scores in allowing us to get so much closer to his pictures than any of its predecessors ever have. -- standard.co.uk
Author Information
José López-Rey (1905-1991) taught Italian Renaissance at the University of Madrid and worked as an art advisor for the Spanish Ministry of Education. Before the end of the Spanish Civil War, he emigrated to the USA, where he resumed his teaching career at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. In 1973 he was awarded emeritus status. López-Rey was a corresponding member of the Hispanic Society of America and a consultant and contributor to several international art journals, including the Gazette des Beaux Arts and Art News. Odile Delenda, graduate of the École du Louvre, served as professor there, and then as deputy head of the department of paintings at the Musée du Louvre until 2007. She has collaborated on several exhibitions of old master paintings. A research fellow at the Wildenstein Institute in Paris since 1990, she has continued her study of Spanish art from the Siglo de Oro. She is, among other works, the author of Vélasquez, peintre religieux (1993) and, under the auspices of the Wildenstein Institute, the first critical catalogue raisonné of the painted oeuvre of Francisco de Zurbarán and his studio (2009/10).
