Alpers, Svetlana.

The vexations of art : VelaÌzquez and others / Svetlana Alpers. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2005. - viii, 298 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-292) and index.

The view from the studio -- Not Bathsheba -- Rembrandt's Dutch -- Painting out of conflict : Dutch art in the seventeenth century -- Waiting for death : VelaÌzquez's Mercury and Argus -- Singularity at court -- The painter's museum -- VelaÌzquez's resemblance to Manet.

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Artists' studios.
Artists--Psychology.
Painting, European--Themes, motives.

N8520 / .A44 2005

759.04