Painter to the King

Painter to the King

责  任  者 :Amy Sackville
出  版  者 :Granta
索  书  号 : I561.45/S121.1
馆藏地点 :多元文化馆
发布时间 :2022-04-13
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This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess. Unfolding through series of masterly set-pieces and glancing sketches, this is a novel of brilliance, imagination and sheer style, about what is shown and what is seen, about art and life.