The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 247
envelops his models inambient air, and places them soexactly on the planes they ought tooccupy that we feel as if we werewalking round them. Velasquez painted not only indi-viduals but a whole society, a wholeepoch. The Spanish court and aris-tocracy live again on his canvases inall the pride,… … FIG. 440.—LA MAJA CLOTHED. GOVA. (Museum, Madrid.) children, with their unhealthy facesand rigid attitudes. On the otherhand, when he painted his mytho-logical or genre pictures, Velasqueztook his models from the robustMadrilene proletariat, which attractedAlurillo also, when he wearied ofVirgins…
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