#diego velazquez

[tygerland]

• Portrait of Innocent X (1650) by Diego Velázquez.

• Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) by Francis Bacon.

[baroque-art-history]

Study for the head of Apollo painted by Diego Velazquez (1599 - 1660)

[metanoias-substack]

Two Just Stop Oil protesters were arrested after smashing the glass protecting the iconic Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London.

The incident comes hot on the heels of several widely publicised attacks against artworks by climate activists.

Is art vandalism for ostensibly noble political purposes justified, or is there something more sinister — and indefensible — at play?

Read more here.

[permament-witzelsucht]

Diego Velazquez, 1599 - 1660, Spanish | The Gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome, 1630 | Villa Medici in Rome (Facade of the Grotto Logia), 1630 |

[illustratus]

Alatriste (2006) by Agustín Díaz Yanes | The Surrender of Breda by Diego Velázquez

[ibikus]

Portrait of Innocent X by Diego Velázquez | Details of Ghost's Prequelle Album Art by Zbigniew M. Bielak (X) | Św. Hieronim by Hans Memling

[ratedc]

i can’t believe crucifying them was the merciful option

[arinewman7]

Christ Crucified

Diego Velazquez

oil on canvas, 1632

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

art history playlist moodboard – religious trauma

Joan of Arc’s Death at the Stake – Hermann Stilke // The Penitent Magdalene – Giambattista Pittoni // Christ Crucified – Diego Velázquez // The Penitent Mary Magdalene – Carl Fröschl // Christ Crucified – Diego Velázquez // Christian in Prayer – Max Nonnenbruch // Lilith – John Collier // The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian – Francisco de Zurbarán // Penitent Magdalene – Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa 

[murderhusbandsblog]

Christ Crucified, c. 1632, by Diego Velázquez. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

[artgate-blog]

Diego Velazquez

self-portrait

1640

[eucanthos]

Diego Velázquez (ES, 1599 - 1660)

Las Hilanderas (The spinners) / The Fable of Arachne (La fábula de Aracne) ca. 1657. Oil on canvas 222,5 × 293 cm. Prado

The x-ray of the canvas reveals the multiple patches used to expand the originally cramped yet ingeniously reversed POV of the theme.

In 1948, art historian Diego Angula produced a convincing argument that the iconography of Las Hilanderas suggests the Fable of Arachne. The helmeted figure in the background is Pallas Athena, and the tapestry visible to the viewer as the Rape of Europa, the subject that Arachne was said to depict.

The tapestry is a copy after Titian's Rape of Europa, also copied by Rubens in 1629, both prized items in the Spanish royal collection.

The reference to Titian and Rubens's copies could be a parallel to Arachne's conviction of being able to surpass goddess Athena. The POV reverse could also be a provocation by setting lay women just in the front layer...

https://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/las_hilanderas

https://www.investigart.com/2018/10/16/las-hilanderas-cuando-el-tiempo-y-la-historia-tambien-pintan/

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_f%C3%A1bula_de_Aracne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez

[baroque-art-history]

Portrait of Pedro de Barberana y Aparregui painted by Diego Velazquez (1599 - 1660)

[granstromjulius]

Diego Velázquez

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The Leverage Team as kids:

Nate:

Eliot:

Hardison:

Parker:

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Diego Velázquez, The Lady with a Fan, ca. 1640, oil/canvas (The Wallace Collection, London)