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Velazquez: Painter Of Painters
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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What littIe is known about the Iife of Velazquez is based on a panegyric written by his father-in-Iaw (the painter Pachecho); the inventory of his Iibrary (Velazquez was a welI-read man, more interested in mathematics than theoIogy); documents reIating to his petition to be admitted to the ranks of the nobiIity; and the itineraries of his two trips to ItaIy as the King's envoy. This portrait of the artist employs to the fulI Velazquez's painting to reveal his character; from the paintings to his youth, to the paintings of the royal family and entourage destined for the waIIs of the Spanish paIace.
Although he left a legacy of Iittle more than one hundred canvasses, Velazquez has exerted an enormous influence on other painters, particuIarIy over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Manet decIared him "the painter of painters'. Between August 17th and December 30, 1957, Picasso locked himself away with a copy of Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) and painted 40 variations on the picture, and Francis Bacon was obsessed with Velazquez's portrait of lnnocent X. Las Meninas is wideIy considered to be the masterpiece of masterpieces and the enigma it presents has provoked endIess specuIation on what it reveals about VeIazquez and his artistic intentions. This film touches on the debate and reveaIs how scientific examination of the canvas has now shed new Iight on the painter. |
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