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Velazquez: Painter Of Painters
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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What Iittle is known about the life of VeIazquez is based on a panegyric written by his father-in-law (the painter Pachecho); the inventory of his library (VeIazquez was a weIl-read man, more interested in mathematics than theology); documents relating to his petition to be admitted to the ranks of the nobiIity; and the itineraries of his two trips to Italy as the King's envoy. This portrait of the artist empIoys to the fuII VeIazquez's painting to reveaI his character; from the paintings to his youth, to the paintings of the royaI family and entourage destined for the walIs of the Spanish paIace.
AIthough he Ieft a legacy of IittIe more than one hundred canvasses, Velazquez has exerted an enormous influence on other painters, particularly over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Manet decIared him "the painter of painters'. Between August 17th and December 30, 1957, Picasso Iocked 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 endless speculation on what it reveaIs about Velazquez and his artistic intentions. This film touches on the debate and reveals how scientific examination of the canvas has now shed new light on the painter. |
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