#velazquez

[innamorat4]

Las meninas - Velázquez, 1656

[lostincitylight]

[proud-spaniard]

Inmaculada Concepción, cuadro de Velázquez (siglo XVII).

Immaculate Conception, painting by Velázquez (17th century).

[sheltiechicago]

Study After Velázquez's Portrait Of Pope Innocent X

Artist: Francis Bacon | Year (completed): 1953 |  Style: Expressionism

In 1649, Pope Innocent X commissioned Velázquez to paint his portrait. Many artists and critics deem Portrait of Innocent X the finest portrait ever created. Velázquez, however, did not flatter his subject or try to showcase him in a better light. The Pope's portrait is renowned for its realism. It honestly portrays a highly educated, cunning, but aging man. Despite seeing it just once, Francis Bacon used Velázquez's painting as the source material. It’s important to note that Bacon never painted from life and preferred to use various visual sources, such as commissioned and found paintings. In Study After Velázquez's Portrait Of Pope Innocent X, Bacon could paint the Pope in an even less favorable manner than Velázquez did. In Bacon's interpretation, the Pope is depicted screaming, but the enclosing draperies and the deep, dark colors seem to "hush" his voice. The dark background hues give the picture a horrible and nightmare-like tone. Bacon's response to why he kept returning to Velázquez's portrait was that he had nothing against popes and was only looking for "an excuse to use these colours."

[fashionbooksmilano]

High Society

Johnatan Bilker

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2018, 136 pages, 22x30cm, ISBN 9789462084261

euro 60,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Exceptional life-size portraiture by great masters such as Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Rembrandt and Velázquez

The Rijksmuseum is celebrating the completed restoration of Rembrandt's magnificent portraits of the exuberantly dressed Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit with a comprehensive publication (and accompanying exhibition) dedicated to life-size portraiture. Over the centuries, powerful monarchs, eccentric aristocrats and rich burghers commissioned portraits of themselves arrayed in all their finery and preferably life-size, from the world's most famous painters. This book presents exceptional life-size portraits by great masters, including Lucas Cranach the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Rembrandt and Velázquez. In an essay, Rijksmuseum curator Jonathan Bikker describes the history, form and function of these portraits and recounts biographical details and lots of juicy gossip about the sitters. Also included are the splendid portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit that were recently acquired by the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre.

30/04/24

[artschoolglasses]

A Sybil, Diego Velazquez, 1632

[tonbane]

I finally got my scanner back! You know what that means... Some sketches from the last time I visited El Prado ✨

1, 2: Goya portrayed by Vicente López Portaña

3. detail of: The drunkards (or Bacchus victory) by Velázquez. Because the man in the middle looks like my grandfather :)

Reblog to drink wine with Bacchus 🍷🔄

[emvisual]

El matrimonio Arnolfini de Velázquez.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Some guys I like a lot

[soraya-was-here]

Madrid

[evydraws]

Master study

... Well, I tried and failed at capturing that nose TWICE which is maybe a skill in itself.

[zulymarvelaz]

Zulymar Velazquez basketball player got a chance to meet Actor Peyton Alex Smith from All American Homecoming

[incorrect-emdt-quotes]

*Eating tapas in 2023*

Alonso: Has anyone ever stopped to wonder why we’re still alive?

Amelia: Oh yeah.

Ernesto: All the time.

Velazquez: By all likelihood, we shouldn’t be.

[docpiplup]

👆👆👆👆

Este hilo es buenísimo 🤣

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

George Condo, ‘Dreams and Nightmares of the Queen,’ 2006,

(Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022)

Oil on Canvas, 50,8 x 40,6 cm.

Commissioned by the Wrong Gallery for displaying at Tate Modern, George Condo's portrait of the Queen is perhaps the most controversial and criticized one. In the painting, Her Majesty is portrayed as what the artist described 'a toothless Cabbage Patch Doll' in his signature surrealist-distorted style.

It might not be apparent at a first glance, but Condo’s inspiration for this particularly bulbous portrait of Her Majesty was inspired by the Spanish painter, Velázquez.

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«El primer punto sobre el cual quiero llamar la atención es que, fuera de lo propiamente humano, no existe nada cómico. Podrá un paisaje ser hermoso, sublime, insignificante o feo, pero nunca será ridículo. Cuando reímos a la vista de un animal, es porque hemos sorprendido en él una actitud o una expresión humana. Un sombrero nos hace reír, por la forma que los hombres le dieron, por el capricho humano en que se moldeó, y no porque el fieltro o la paja de que se compone susciten por sí mismos nuestra risa. No entiendo cómo un hecho tan importante dentro de su sencillez, no haya llamado mayormente la atención de los filósofos. Muchos definieron al hombre “un animal que ríe”. Habrían debido definirle también como un animal que mueve a risa, porque cuando algún otro animal o cualquier cosa inanimada motiva la risa, es en todos los casos por su parecido con el hombre, por la huella dejada por el hombre o por el uso hecho por el hombre».

Henri Bergson: Introducción a la metafísica. La risa. Editorial Porrúa, S. A., págs. 49-50.  México, 1986

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dies-irae-1