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Title: Old Masters exhibit from stunning Italian collection: 12 seldom-seen works a fitting follow-up to Vermeer show.(Arts)(Art)
Author: Joanna Shaw-Eagle
Publication: The Washington Times (Newspaper)
Date: June 16, 1996
Publisher: News World Communications, Inc.
Page: 3

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Barry Wind's remarkable book provides a comprehensive account of the genre paintings of Valazquez, the great seventeenth-century Spanish painter. ... Read more

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Important text on early paintings by Velazquez
Wind's text is the first to treat Velazquez's Sevillian pictures in depth, and has a great bibliography. His emphasis on the sources of Velazquez's inspiration depend too heavily on picaresque literature, in my belief, but otherwise the book is immensely useful, academically. ... Read more