is a 1630 painting by Diego Velázquez‚ now held in the museum of the Sacristía Mayor del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid‚ Spain). It was painting in the house of the Spanish ambassador in Rome and brought back to Spain with Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan. External links[edit] Velázquez‚ exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF)‚ which contains material on this painting (see index) [hide] v t e Diego Velázquez (List of works) Genre
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Seminar Paper: Velazquez Portrait of Philip IV at Fraga 1644 Philip IV at Fraga was painted in 1644 during his Argonese campaign to take back the city of Lerida from the French. It was painted by the Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez who was Philip’s court painter who accompanied him to Fraga. Velázquez used oil paint on canvass to create an impressionist portrait depicting Philip IV in his military uniform holding his sword and baton of command. It can now be located in The Frick Collection
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works can be considered as masterpieces. Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez‚ a group portrait of the court of Spanish King Philip IV‚ is definately one of them. The painting represents Velazquez’s techniques‚ and is absolutely extraordinary and implies influences Velazques might has had. Also Velazquez had a deeper purpose in his mind when creating this masterpiece. He wanted to earn the title that can ensure him a high position in society. So‚ Velazquez had this desire for an aristocratic title greater than
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“Allegory of Sight”) (see Smarthistory and Met essay on Rubens and Van Dyke) Caravaggio. (see Met essay on Caravaggio) Bernini (see Met essays on Bernini and on Baroque Rome) Borromini Velazquez (Las Meninas – see Smarthistory – and Juan de Pareja‚ at the Met) See also Met essay on Velazquez. Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain (both French‚ working in Italy) Dutch painting: Hals (Willem Coymans at the National Gallery in Washington‚ D.C.)‚ Rembrandt (self-portraits and The
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Assignment: Formal Analysis of Art Summary There are various formal qualities about the painting Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez that make it very interesting to view. For example‚ I have observed the above listed painting through conducting a formal analysis of it‚ and have concluded with the following observations and interpretations of my understandings. The artist has portrayed an image of girls in the midst as if waiting to attend the wedding. Second‚ the artist reflects within the painting
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Diego Maradona: One of Soccer’s Greatest Players “Every morning that I get up‚ I should light a candle to the soccer ball.” -Diego Maradona Soccer is the most popular sport in the world‚ and one of the most popular soccer player’s in the world is Diego Maradona‚ star of the Argentina national team and a professional who has led his team to many championships in Argentina
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BAROQUE NATURALISM IN SPAIN: VELAZQUEZ The greatest master of Spanish painting and one of the greatest painters of the Baroque was Diego Velazquez. Inspired by the simple‚ realistic paintings of Caravaggio‚ his approach to art would fly in the face of the flamboyant trends in his day and go even further in the direction of “naturalism.” Surprisingly‚ when he was twenty-four‚ the honest realist was appointed the court painter to the king. More surprisingly‚ Velazquez succeeded in his new role without
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Art101-15 Assigment-4 1- The Maids of Honor is a 1656 painting done by Diego Velazquez. Its subject goes around a portrait of the main characters in the painting‚ also it shows the artist who is painting. The theme of the painting is social where it shows a very casual time of a royal family’s life. 2- IT was a commissioned work by King Philip IV‚ the main point of the painting is the king’s daughter were she is encircled by the other characters‚ and the painter shows her clearly by using
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impose stasis on history‚ freezing together the ancient past with living memories. It is a practice as much shamanic as artistic‚ one related to the concept of Aztec duality and addressed in other terms as well. Two immediate similarities to the Velazquez painting
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this theory as is one of the most complex ‘exceptions’ in all Renaissance. The painting makes us to reconsider everything we think we know about “the gaze” and its positioning in desire. As compared to Carracci’s work Venus at her Toilet‚ the Velazquez may seem different as to be almost “about” different things not adornment but disencuberment not self-centeredness but solitude; the body not as object but span. Another painting “ Venus at her mirror” by Ruben which is crowded‚ obsessive foregrounding
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