Lives of Velázquez explore la and california Mapplethorpe

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ISBN 978-0-89236-859-4

Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California

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Edited by Aïcha Ben Abed

Lives of Velázquez explore la and california MapplethorpeFrancisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino Lives of Velzquez brings together two seminal early accounts of the great seventeenth century Spanish painter (ca. 15991660). These texts, written by his contemporaries Francisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino and newly translated for this volume, serve as our main sources of knowledge about this groundbreaking artist. Pachecos biography reveals the scale of the challenge to traditional painting presented by