Paris exhibition of Diego Velázquez ready – The Universal

 The work of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) and other great painters of his time is offered for the first time the French public in a retrospective on Tuesday inaugurated the Grand Palais in Paris the kings of Spain during a state visit.

 

 The monumental tribute to the universal Sevillian painter of King Philip IV at 24 years old and very famous author of “The Meninas “, which in 1600 was witness at the marriage of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Austria and Luis XIV is simply titled “Velázquez” perhaps be considered in France the best painter of Golden Age Spanish.

 

 The Grand Palais-NMR and the Louvre, producers of the show in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts Vienna, stressed that it was possible thanks to the “generous support of the Museo del Prado” where a remarkable set of the master’s work is concentrated , who only preserved in the world just over a hundred oil paintings.

 

 Until next July 13, Paris will bring together 119 works, of which about one hundred oil paintings, of which “between 55 and 60 are of Velázquez” and other great Spanish painters, Flemish and Italian, told Efe the curator and curator Louvre, Guillaume Kientz.

 

 The importance given to his mentor and father, Francisco Pacheco, and his great disciple and son, Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, which closes the final section, dedicated to “The Velázquez” – try to reveal the complete evolution of the painter, from its formation to most important moment of his career and his subsequent influence.

 

 The second objective of the Commissioner acknowledges, is “to advance the history of art, make real comparisons of works together” and expose paintings and lesser-known authors, hidden for centuries in the shadow of Velazquez brightness.
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 “The Forge of Vulcan”, from the Prado; the portrait of Pope “Innocent X”, the Galleria Doria Pamphili in Rome; and “Rokeby Venus” from the National Gallery London, are three of the most famous creations have traveled to Paris.

 

 Immersed in a stage that floods gray, black, olive green or red the different moments of the career and life of Velázquez six-five pieces of them owned by particulares- collections will be presented to the public for the first time, as confirmed Kientz.
 One is by Velázquez portrait Inquisitor Sebastián de Huerta, reproduced “for the first time two years ago in a Spanish magazine, but nobody saw” and that without leaving the family collection was forgotten until its recent rediscovery .

 

 Other unpublished are two portraits of “Santa Justa” and “Santa Rufina” by Francisco Pacheco; and two Martínez del Mazo: a portrait of Velázquez “appeared at auction in 2010 or 2011″ and “San Isidro Labrador” Camon Aznar who cataloged the mid-twentieth century, but which then lost track
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 In its tracking, the Commissioner also met with “The Education of the Virgin”, attributed to Velázquez, the New Haven Yale Art Gallery, which will also be exposed after its recent discovery.

 

 At least fifteen publications accompanying the exhibition, according to the National Book Centre (CNL), including one written by Jeanine Baticle for Gallimard biography in pocket also edited “Diego Velázquez: physionomie d’un génie” by Emile Michel .

 

 The Meeting of National Museums (RMN) publishes four titles, including an iconographic guide, the album “Velazquez et le triomphe of peinture espagnole” and catalog work Kientz, who also signs “Velázquez. L’affrontement de la peinture” illustrated book that aims to be “the great monograph reference.”

 

 The “velazquezmanía” has only just begun, while taking the magnetic Paris exhibition poster with the portrait “The Infanta Margarita in Blue” painted around 1659, lent for the occasion by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, from October to February this year and held Velazquez “in a reduced format.”
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

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