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Not until the upheavals caused by Napoleon’s Peninsular War (1808–14) was some of his work dispersed throughout Northern Europe. In the nineteenth-century, his paintings made an enormous impact upon artists, and to the present day Velázquez is remembered as the painter’s painter.
Oct 1, 1989 · In its own right it's a tour de force, and I suspect that this, the largest Velazquez exhibition ever assembled - 38 paintings (more than a third of Velazquez's total output), 17 of them from...
In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family and commoners, culminating in his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656). Velázquez's paintings became a model for 19th century realist and impressionist painters.
Oct 16, 2020 · A small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly Grovier.
He painted noblemen and commoners, landscapes and still lifes, scenes from the Bible and classical mythology, court jesters and dwarfs, a young princess in formal dress, an old woman cooking...
Jan 12, 2017 · Velázquez painted no more than 120 works, and so full-scale exhibitions, like the adventurous 2015 retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris, are rare.
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Dec 25, 2011 · Diego Velázquez memorialized the reconquest—a rare late success for the Spaniards in the war—with “The Surrender of Breda” (1634-35), the most dazzling and moving of history paintings. He was...
