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Title: Velazquez

Author: S. L. Bensusan

Release Date: October 22, 2009 [EBook #30316]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Cover art]

MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY --
T. LEMAN HARE

VELAZQUEZ

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PLATE I.--THE INFANTE DON FERNANDO OF AUSTRIA (Frontispiece)

This picture was painted for the Torre de la Parada, and shows King
Philip's younger brother in hunting costume. Velazquez seems to have
repainted a part of the canvas which is to be seen in the Prado, Madrid.

[Illustration: Plate I.]

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VELAZQUEZ

BY S. L. BENSUSAN

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

[Illustration: Title page art]

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

1907

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
I. THE METHOD AND INFLUENCE OF VELAZQUEZ
II. THE PAINTER'S EARLY DAYS
III. VELAZQUEZ IN MADRID
IV. A RETROSPECT

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

I. The Infante Don Fernando of Austria . . . . . . . Frontispiece
In the Prado, Madrid

II. Las Meninas
In the Prado, Madrid

III. The Infante Philip Prosper
In the Imperial Gallery, Vienna

IV. The Infante Don Balthasar Carlos
In the Prado, Madrid

V. Antonio the Englishman
In the Prado, Madrid

VI. Admiral Adriano Pulido Pareja
In the National Gallery, London

VII. Donna Mariana of Austria
In the Prado, Madrid

VIII. The Princess Maria Theresa of Austria
In the Prado, Madrid

INTRODUCTION

[Illustration: Velazquez]

It is a curious truth that Spain in these days of her decline exercises
almost as much control over the mind of the world as she exercised over
its territories in the days of her great empire. Cervantes in
literature and Velazquez in art seem destined to secure