中文简介：

本书全面介绍了迭戈·委拉兹开斯（Diego Velázquez）的生活和艺术，包括对其所有主要作品的讨论。

迭戈·委拉兹开斯（1599-1660）是西方绘画和巴洛克艺术的代表人物之一，是一位以现实主义和真实性而闻名的技术大师。他的所有画作都被视为肖像画，从西班牙皇室和教皇英诺森十世，到研钵和研杵。这本关于委拉兹开斯的生活和艺术的全面介绍包括对其所有主要作品的讨论，并对委拉兹开斯现存的大部分画作进行了说明。他非传统、革命性的创新技术，与他在西班牙及其他地方同时代的知名艺术家的风格有关，包括提香和鲁本斯。本书最后一章介绍了委拉兹开斯的艺术对后来画家的影响和重要性，从他去世到近代的艺术，包括弗朗西斯科·戈雅、巴勃罗·毕加索、弗朗西斯·培根和印象派。

英文简介：

A comprehensive introduction to Velázquez's life and art which includes a discussion of all his major works.

Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) was one of the towering figures of western painting and Baroque art, a technical master renowned for his focus on realism and startling veracity. Everything he painted was 'treated' as a portrait, from Spanish royalty and Pope Innocent X, to a mortar and pestle. This comprehensive introduction to Velázquez's life and art includes a discussion of all his major works, and illustrates most of Velázquez's surviving output of approximately 110 paintings. The artist's greatest innovation – his unorthodox and revolutionary technique is explored in relation to the styles of certain of his most celebrated contemporaries both in Spain and beyond, including Titian and Rubens. The book concludes with a final chapter on the influence and importance of Velázquez's art on later painters from the time of his own death to the art of recent times including Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and the Impressionists.