Diego Velazquez spent his formative years at the center of
artistic life in seventeenth-century Seville, a gateway to the New
World characterized by intellectual debate, religious fervor, and
mounting ethnic tensions. Yet critics have often divorced the
painter's novel style and subject matter from the city's unique
pictorial and cultural traditions. In Diego Velazquez's Early
Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville, Tanya J.
Tiffany demonstrates that Velazquez's works not only engaged
Seville's social practices but also raised issues of vital
importance to seventeenth-century Sevillians. As a young artist,
Velazquez contended with such essential questions as women's place
in society, the nature of artistic creativity, the role of religion
in everyday life, and the incorporation of racial minorities into
Christianity. This study offers close readings of individual
paintings with regard to their historical framework, critical
context, and early reception. Through this approach, Tiffany
illuminates well-known masterpieces and also highlights the fluid
boundaries between high art and popular forms of visual
expression.
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