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    Velázquez's 'Las Meninas' by Stratton-Pruitt, Suzanne L.;

    Series: Masterpieces of Western Painting;

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    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 25 November 2002

    • ISBN 9780521800570
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages236 pages
    • Size 229x152x18 mm
    • Weight 520 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 35 b/w illus.
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    Short description:

    This 2003 book offers a survey of responses to the painting from the nineteenth century.

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    Long description:

    Vel&&&225;zquez'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.

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

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction Las Meninas: the theology of painting Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt; 1. The aura of a masterpiece: 19th-century responses to Las Meninas in France and Spain Alisa Luxenberg; 2. Las Meninas at Kingston Lacy Hugh Brigstocke; 3. 'Why drag in Vel&&&225;squez?': Realism, aestheticism, and the American response to Las Meninas M. Elizabeth Boone; 4. Las Meninas as representation Estrella de Diego; 5. Vel&&&225;squez and the twentieth century Barbara Rose.

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