JONATHAN BROWN is Caroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at New York University. He is the author of many books on Spanish art, including The Golden Age of Painting in Spain, and Velazquez: Pai,ter and Courtier, both published by Yale University Press.

CARMEN GARRIDO is Head of Technical Services at the Prado Museum in Madrid and author of Velazquez: Tecnica y Evolucion

‘The most accessible study of an artist’s technique I have ever come across.’

－－Michael Jacobs, Modern Painters

In creating the techniques he needed to express his ideas, Velazquez became one of the most original practitioners of the art of painting ever known. In this richly illustrated book, two widely recognised specialists on Velazquez - one an art historian, the other a conservation scientist - combine their expertise to show exactly how Spain’s most famous painter realised his artistic vision. In a fascinating analysis of thirty works by Velazquez that span his entire career, the authors then examine how the artist devised the techniques to express his ideas and how these changed over time. More than two hundred photographs of details of Velazquez’s paintings vividly demonstrate how the artist realised his vision of man and nature through a highly allusive, economical manner of painting. This pathbreaking exploration of Velfazquez’s technical achievement reveals as never before the miracle of the creative process of one of the world’s greatest masters.

Velazquez: An Introduction to his Life and Career

Jonathan Brown

Genius at Work: Velazquez’s Materials and Technique

Carmen Garrido

Adoration of the Magi

Philip IV

The Feast of Bacchus

Joseph’s Coat Brought-to Jacob

The Forge of Vulcan

The Villa Medici Grotto-Loggia Facade

Pavilion of Cleopatra-Ariadne

The Temptation of St Thomas Aquinas

Christ on the Cross

Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV

Baltasar Carlos on Horseback

The Surrender of Breda

Pablo de Valladolid

"Don Juan de Austria"

St Anthony Abbot Visits St Paul the Hermit

Equestrian Portrait of Count-Duke Olivares

Coronation of the Virgin

Philip IV as Hunter

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand as Hunter

Baltasar Carlos as Hunter

"Francisco tezcano"

Diego de Acedo, E1 Primo

Juan Calabazas

Menippus

Aesop

Mars

Mariana of Austria

Las Meninas

Fable of Arachne

Mercury and Argus

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