Juan de Pareja. Afro-Hispanic painter in the age of Velázquez

Autor:
VVAA
Editorial:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN
9781588397560
Idioma
Inglés
Fecha de Publicación
2023
Nº de páginas
176
Formato
Tapa dura
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58,00€

A provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain

Diego Velázquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608 1670) has long been a landmark of European art, but this provocative study focuses on its subject: an enslaved man who went on to build his own successful career as an artist. This catalogue?the first scholarly monograph on Pareja? discusses the painter's ties to the Madrid School of the 1660s and revises our understanding of artistic production during Spain's Golden Age, with a focus on enslaved artists and artisans. The authors illuminate the highly skilled labor within Seville's multiracial society; the role of Black saints and confraternities in the promotion of Catholicism among enslaved populations; and early twentieth-century scholar Arturo Schomburg's project to recover Pareja's legacy. The book also includes the first illustrated and annotated list of known works attributed to Pareja.