Velázquez. The Complete Works

Manet called him "the greatest painter of them all." Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dalí...for so many proponents of art history, the ultimate touchstone was, and remains, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660).

This monograph edition brings together Velázquez's complete works with a selection of enlarged details and photographs of newly restored paintings, accomplished thanks to the joint initiative of TASCHEN and the Wildenstein Institute. The dazzling images are accompanied by profound commentary from José López-Rey on Velázquez's interest in human life and his equal attention to all subjects, from an old woman frying eggs to a pope or a king, as well as his commitment to color and light, which would influence the Impressionists more than two centuries later.

ISBN: 9783836581790