Velázquez and his times
Light, Power, and Portraits of the Spanish Golden AgeBy Carl Justi
Length6h 54m
About this audiobook
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 – August 6 1660), known as Diego Vélasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV. Along with Francisco Goya and Le Greco, he is generally considered to be one of the greatest artists in Spanish history. His style, whilst remaining very personal, belongs firmly in the Baroque movement. Velázquez’s two visits to Italy, evidenced by documents from that time, had a strong effect on the manner in which his work evolved. Besides numerous paintings with historical and cultural value, Diego Vélasquez painted numerous portraits of the Spanish Royal Family, other major European figures, and even of commoners. His artistic talent, according to general opinion, reached its peak in 1656 with the completion of Las Meninas, his great masterpiece. In the first quarter of the 19th century, Velázquez's style was taken as a model by Realist and Impressionist painters, in particular by Édouard Manet. Since then, further contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí have paid homage to their famous compatriot by recreating several of his most famous works.
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Length6 hrs 54 mins
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Table of contents
1Introduction
32Prince Balthasar Carlos on Horseback
2Introduction
33Count-Duke of Olivares on Horseback
3His Early Years
34The Portraits of Philip III and Queen Margarita of Austria
4Artistic background of the Era
35Prince Bathasar Carlos
5Velázquez and the Court
36The Child
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6The Waterseller of Seville
37Prince Balthasar Carlos with the Count-Duke of Olivares at the Royal Mews
7An Old Woman Cooking Eggs
38Maturity
8The Epiphany or The Adoration of the Magi
39Farewell to Italy and Return to Spain
9The Expulsion of the Moriscos
40Juan de Pareja
10Bacchus (The Borrachos of Topers)
41Pope Innocent x
11A Blooming Career
42Works of Maturity
12The Italian Interlude and The Days of Buen Retiro
43Queen Mariana of Austria
13Villa Medici
44The Infanta Maria Theresa
14The Forge of Vulcan
45Infanta Margarita
15Joseph’s Bloody Coat brought to Jacob
46The Last Portraits of Philip IV
16Mary of Hungary
47Las Meninas: The Maids of Honour
17The Surrender of Breda
48Velázquez’ Family
18The Boar Hunt or La Tela Real
49Portraits of Velázquez
19The Three Royal Sportsmen
50The Fable of Arachne (‘Las Hilanderas’)
20Christ after the Flagellation contemplated by the Christian Soul or Christ at the Pillar
51Sebastián de Morra
21Velázquez as a Portrait Painter
52El Primo
22A Sibyl (or Juana Pacheco)
53Aesop
23Lady with a Fan
54Menippus
24Isabella of Bourbon
55Mars
25The Two Little Maidens
56Mercury and Argus
26The Sculptor Martínez Montañés
57The Toilet of Venus or ‘The Rokeby Venus’
27Francis d’Este, Duke of Modena
58The Coronation of the Virgin
28Admiral Adrian Pulido
59The Anchorites or Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Paul the Hermit
29The Count of Benavente
60The Last Days
30Philip IV on Horseback
61Biography
31Philip IV at Fraga
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