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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.
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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.
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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.
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2
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Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
759.6 V446c
Core Collection - Adult
Checked out
Jul 10, 2024
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