Velázquez (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Maurice Sérullaz
- First Published: 1966
- Time of Work: 1599–1660
- Setting: Seville, Madrid, and Rome
- Principal Characters: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Francisco Pacheco, Philip IV, Juana de Miranda Pacheco, Francisca
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Art or artists, Marriage, Seventeenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Painting or painters, Biography, Spain or Spanish people, Apprentices, Royal courts or courtiers, Portraits
- Locales: Rome, Italy, Madrid, Spain, Seville, Spain
Form and Content
Maurice Sérullaz’s Velázquez, translated from the French by I. Mark Paris, is not in the usual format of a biography. It begins with a sixty-one-page introduction, written with the collaboration of Christian Pouillon, more than half of which is devoted to seventy-five black-and-white illustrations. This section is followed by a detailed “Biographical Outline,” which presents the important people and events in Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez’s life. The substance of the book is found in the forty-eight color plates, each accompanied by a...
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