Velázquez: His Life and Works in 500 Images

Diego Velázquez was the greatest court painter of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art — a painter whose psychological penetration, whose technical mastery of light and shadow, and whose ability to render the specific texture of fabric, skin, and atmosphere have never been surpassed. This comprehensive life and works volume presents all five hundred major paintings, from the early Seville genre scenes through the court portraits of Philip IV to the incomparable Las Meninas, alongside the biographical material that places them in their historical context. Published by Lorenz Books.