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 | | Velázquez, Los Borrachos, and Painting at the Court of Philip IV by Steven N. Orso ISBN-10: 9780521444521 ISBN-10: 0-521-44452-7 ISBN-13: 9780521444521 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-44452-1 Hardcover 1994-01-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book explains the origins of Los Borrachos ("The Drunkards"), a celebrated but bewildering mythological painting of international fame, created by Diego de Velázquez for Philip IV of Spain around 1628-29. By studying Velázquez's early years at court (1623-29) and the role that historians of his day assigned to Bacchus, the author reaches a dramatic new interpretation of the picture. There are many monographs devoted to Velázquez's entire life, but no book focuses on this painting or the artist's early career at court in such depth. | ||
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Orso's book helps bring new insight into Velazquez. This book, with its throrough description of mythology as it existed in Spain around Velazquez time, helped me identify the subject of some other paintings from that period not in the public domain. Viewed together with paintings by Velazquez, Rubens and Patinir, they show Bacchus' birth place in Spain, his journey through Andalusia and his visit with his mother Semele in Olympus. Together they show that Velazquez and Rubens painted a whole series on Bacchus in Iberia based on the story by Ovid, adding even more proof to Professor Orso's hypothesis that the Los Barrachos painting is based on mythology. This discovery could not have been made without Internet, Professor Orso, and Amazon Books. Thanks to you all | ||