Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; Critical responses to painterly painting; An allegory of painterly painting; The Spinners and the triumph of Venice; The Spinners: a witty critique; Las Meninas: social and structural perspectives; Las Meninas: painterly polemics; Select bibliography: Index.

About the Author

Giles Knox is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art, Indiana University, USA.

Reviews

Prize: Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Eleanor Tufts book prize competition, 2011, sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS) 'The Late Paintings of Velázquez is a comprehensive effort to treat some of the most important paintings by Velázquez as part of a self-conscious strategy to locate his past and present work against a backdrop of seventeenth-century art theory polemics, on the one hand, and in relation to the narrative of the history of early modern painting as it had been set up in the canonical Lives of Giorgio Vasari, on the other.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... an insightful contribution to Velázquez Studies.' Bulletin of Spanish Studies