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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Cumming, Laura.     Subjects     Snare, John -- Knowledge -- Art.     Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.     Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660 -- Appreciation.     Portrait painters -- Spain -- Biography.     Painters -- Spain -- Biography.     Artists -- Spain -- Biography.     Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Reading.     Portrait painting -- Attribution.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cumming, Laura.       by title:      The vanishing Velázq...       by call number:      759.6 V446c     Search the Web     Cumming, Laura.     Snare, John -- Knowledge -- Art.     Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.     Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660 -- Appreciation.     Portrait painters -- Spain -- Biography.     Painters -- Spain -- Biography.     Artists -- Spain -- Biography.     Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Reading.     Portrait painting -- Attribution.       MARC Display

The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece / Laura Cumming. by Cumming, Laura. Scribner, 2016. Call #: 759.6 V446c Subjects Snare, John -- Knowledge -- Art.   Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660.   Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660 -- Appreciation.   Portrait painters -- Spain -- Biography.   Painters -- Spain -- Biography.   Artists -- Spain -- Biography.   Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Reading.   Portrait painting -- Attribution. ISBN:  9781476762159 (hc.) 9781476762180 (pbk.) Edition:  First Scribner hardcover edition. Description:  viii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-287) and index. Contents:  A discovery -- The painting -- The painter -- Minister Street -- Man in black -- The talk of London -- A man in full -- the attack -- The theater of life -- Seizure and theft -- The trial -- The escape -- Velázquez on Broadway -- The escape artist -- The vanishing -- Seeing is believing -- The ghost of a picture -- An infinite number of Charleses -- Lost and found -- Saved. Summary:  "A Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young - too young to be king - and yet also too young to be painted by the Flemish painter to which the work was attributed. Snare had found something incredible - but what? His research brought him to Diego Velazquez, whose long-lost portrait of Prince Charles has eluded art experts for generations. Velazquez (1599–1660) was the official painter of the Madrid court, during the time the Spanish Empire teetered on the edge of collapse. When Prince Charles of England - a man wealthy enough to help turn Spain's fortunes - ventured to the court to propose a marriage with a Spanish princess, he allowed just a few hours to sit for his portrait. Snare believed only Velazquez could have met this challenge. But in making his theory public, Snare was ostracized, victim to aristocrats and critics who accused him of fraud, and forced to choose, like Velazquez himself, between art and family. A thrilling investigation into the complex meaning of authenticity and the unshakable determination that drives both artists and collectors of their work, the story travels from extravagant Spanish courts in the 1700s to the gritty courtrooms and auction houses of nineteenth-century London and New York. Tragic mishaps and mistaken identities and almost farcical accident. A testimony to how and why great works of art can affect us to the point of obsession."--Provided by publisher. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 759.6 V446c Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 10, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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