Showing posts with label Velázquez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Velázquez. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Velázquez at the Grand Palais in Paris from March 15 to July 13, 2015

For me, exhibitions devoted to the paintings of the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez always evoke a sense of wonder and possibility. Velázquez' paintings hold me spellbound. I will be in Verona, Italy in May and will find my way to Paris for sure. Perhaps a rendezvous with the esteemed restorer from the Van Gogh Museum - René Boitelle?



An exhibition produced jointly by the RMN-Grand Palais and the Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Curator : Guillaume Kientz, curator in the Department of paintings, Musée du Louvre
Exhibition design : Maciej Fiszer


Diego Velázquez
Portrait of Pope Innocent X56"x47" oil on canvas c1650
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome

25 March 2015 to 13 July 2015
Open : Sundays and Mondays from 10 am to 8 pm,
Wednesdays to Saturdays from 9 am to 10 pm
Closed on Tuesdays
Closed 1st May
Closed at 6pm on 25th and 26th March
Access : metro line 1 and 13 « Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau » or line 9 « Franklin D. Roosevelt »

Attributed to Diego Velázquez
Man With a Wine Glass
Toledo Museum of Art


DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, FROM 15 MARCH TO 13 JULY 2015 AT THE GRAND PALAIS.


Thursday, September 10, 2009

Metropolitan Museum of Art Discovers A New Velázquez In Its Own Collection: Is the Painting a Self Portrait?


Portrait of A Man (Self Portrait?)
Velázquez
oil on canvas circa 1634-35
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
photo by Angel Franco/ New York Times


Portrait of A Man (Self Portrait?) detail
Velázquez
oil on canvas circa 1634-35
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Years of discolored varnish and overpainting have a revealed a fresh new face in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 17th Century Spanish Collection. Carol Vogel has an informative article in today's New York Times: An Old Master Emerges From Grime
Vogel interviewed Keith Christiansen, the Met’s newly appointed chairman of European paintings:“It’s bugged me for 25 years. The quality has always been there. And I had a hard time believing that a work of quality was the product of a generic workshop.”

Keith Christiansen had Velázquez expert Jonathan Brown look at the restored painting. Vogel reports his response: "“One glance was all it took,” Mr. Brown said, adding later, “The picture had been under my nose all my life. It’s a fantastic discovery. It suddenly emerges Cinderella-like.”

Who is this man who has emerged from the smudges and grime of centuries? Is it a long lost self portrait of the master himself? Look at the images and you decide. Update: Tyler Green from Modern Art Notes has provided a twtpoll. Vote here: Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'new' Velazquez a self-portrait?


Velázquez
The Surrender of Breda (Las Lanzas) detail
1634-35
Oil on canvas, 307 x 367 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid


Velázquez
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV (detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
From the Prado's site:"On the left in the painting, dark and calm, the painter himself can be seen standing with brush and palette in front of a tall canvas."


The Metropolitan Displays Restorers Tools
photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

More at:
Met Press Room: Painting in Metropolitan Museum's Collection Reattributed to Spanish Master Velázquez
An Old Master Emerges From Grime
Self Portraits From the Uffizi
Velazquez: The Technique of Genius by Jonathan Brown

A fun read:
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber