Velazquez - World Of Art by Richard Verdi

A book with a comprehensive introduction to Velazquez's life and art which includes a discussion of all his major works. It includes a discussion of all his major works and illustrates most of Velazquez's surviving output of approximately 110 paintings. The book concludes with a final chapter on the influence and importance of Velazquez'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.