[PDF.22ln] The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

[PDF.wx11] The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

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||18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Obsession Through The Centuries|By John D. Cofield|Diego Velazquez is rightfully accounted one of the greatest of painters, and also as one of the least understood. He is remembered for a series of magnificent portraits, usually of seventeenth century Spanish royalty and nobility but also including many perceptive studies of servants, court dwarfs, and other menials. With t| |"Elegant and eloquent. Art history aficionados will find much to admire in this story of one man’s misguided pursuit of a missing portrait." (Booklist)||"An impressive mystery tale."  (San Francisco Book )||"A sumptuous, impressively erud

“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez 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 found a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece   |  Laura Cumming.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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