Synopses & Reviews
"A mirror, a dwarf, a young girl. The tired eyes of an heir to the throne, red-rimmed and endlessly distant. On another two-metre painting, a fleshy nose and a darkened temple above a deep black mountain of a body hung with keys and a chain full of decorations: power, grown unctuous, too heavy to bear, immersed in its own outline. And its jesters, 'with Flemish' collars, short-legged and snub-nosed, stubby fists clenched. And the Spanish Infantas holding onto their own skirts, children exhausted to the point of collapse, purple and black blurring an extremely sad profile. The whole royal lot of them in fact, under the title 'Velázquez and the Royal Family' or 'Las Meninas': time called to a halt; the dwarfs, the maids of honour, the major domo, the blonde Infanta, the artist himself - and in the mirror Philip IV and Queen Maria Anna beneath a red curtain, tiny representations and inventories of themselves. TASCHEN Verlag has published a veritably opulent volume on the artist Velázquez: ... the complete oeuvre, in full and detailed illustrations, an informative and well-translated introduction, commentaries, a bibliography and an index. Wonderful, and really not expensive." Die Zeit, Hamburg
Table of Contents
v. I. Painter of painters -- v. II. Catalogue raisonnâe = Werkverzeichnis German translation, Brigitte Wèolk.