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Tag Archives: Diego Velazquez
humor in art: hurt idealism
It would seem that humour and style are inseparable. But humour itself is not-never was-mere jocularity. Humour is a way of feeling about life, and when humour is great it is almost never without one of its opposite moods- tenderness, … Continue reading
cervantes: spanish fathers and sons
In what sense was Spain, in the years of Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote a schizophrenic society? If we look closely, there is an answer… In Cervantes lifetime, Spain had two very different moods. They were the moods of two … Continue reading
velazquez: the infanta
There is the portrait by Velazquez of the Infanta Margarita, small hands firm on the huge frothing and shimmering skirt of red and silver, the curls shining, the wide confident eyes incuriously fixed on their great delineator, the Hapsburg cheek … Continue reading
velazquez: dwarfed by absolutism
Put them all in a row. The famous dwarfs, or bufones: Don Diego de Acedo, a court official and not a jester at all, who set up to be the painter’s cousin and a man of letters, a tiny creature … Continue reading
collection with the public purse
Charles I was Britain’s most discerning and energetic royal patron, buying much art and encouraging many continental artists. With his ascension to the throne in 1625, it was a turning point in English connoisseurship. Charles had grown up under the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anthony Van Dyck, Bernini, Charles I titian, Diego Velazquez, Earl of Arundel Charles I, Hans Holbein the Elder, Holbein Erasmus, Hugo van der Goes, Jan Van Dyck, King Charles I art collection, King Charles I England, Raphael Cartoons, Rembrandt Collection Charles I, Robert Campin, Rubens, Titian Girl in a fur wrap, Titian Venus of the Pardo
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brother’s keeper
The perspective of the bull depends on where one is situated. For Hemingway, bullfighting is a metaphor for the intricate but often pre-determined relationships between men and women replete with sacrificial qualities and doused with pagan animalism. From a more … Continue reading
kitschy-goo
This is a great quote from art critic Donald Kuspit. Kuspit is something of a traditionalist; or rather looking for the old sense of spirituality and insight into human nature to be found in art, a kind of sane dignity … Continue reading
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