Velzquez Rediscovered Tapa blanda - 2009

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2010. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. 24 pages; 19 color illustraions, including a X-radiograph. The discovery through conservation and cleaning that the painting, Portrait of a Man, is not a work by Velazquez's workshop, but a work by Velazques, himself. Clean throughout; tight binding.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked. 24p. 21 beautiful illustrations (16 in full color). Measures 8.5x11 inches. Introduction by Keith Christiansen. Essays by Jonathan Brown and Michael Gallagher. Documents a 2009 cleaning of Diego Velazquez's (Spanish, 1599-1660) Portrait of a Man. The cleaning revealed it as a picture of astonishing freshness and striking presence. In his introduction, Keith Christiansen describes the provenance of the portrait, the vicissitudes of its attribution since it was first considered by the scholar August L. Mayer in 1917, and his own acquaintance with the painting over three decades. Jonathan Brown identifies the sitter. Conservator Michael Gallagher presents an illuminating account of his cleaning and restoration of the work. Illustrations include Las Meninas, the Surrender of Breda, reproductions from periodicals showing the condition of the portrait in the early twentieth century; before- and after- treatment photographs; and… Leer más