Velázquez

More than 350 years after his death, the name of Velázquez is not only associated with a set of prodigious works or biographical avatars, but also with a rich history of reinterpretations of his art and dialogues by writers, artists, philosophers and a wide variety of audiences. In this volume, nineteen specialists take a look at the episodes of his biography, the artistic and collector context in which he developed his career, the main pictorial genres that he cultivated and the narrative, compositional and stylistic resources that explain why he was one of the most important artists. unique of its time and the enormous influence it has exerted since then.