Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Granta Books (2018)
Description
"This is a portrait of Diego Velázquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain in May 1622, to his death 38 years and several hundred paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between a king and his subject and between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess"--
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LibraryThing member janerawoof
Fictional biography of Diego Velasquez at the court of Philip IV of Spain. The stream-of-consciousness text put me off at first but as I got used to it, the novel grew on me. Most of all I liked the description of each picture the artist painted and the circumstances under which they were painted,
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together with an index to whichever was described; the novel only showed a small bit of each picture. The pictures came more alive to me than the characters. Show Less
Awards
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2020)
Original language
English
Physical description
336 p.; 5.31 inches
ISBN
1783783907 / 9781783783908
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