"The essays provide ... a touchstone for examining the directions in which scholarship on the artist is advancing and, equally important, pose new perspectives for relating the painter and his works to the art and culture of early modern Spain." Seventeenth Century News

• 1. Introduction: a brief history of Velázquez literature Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruit; 2. Becoming an artist in seventeenth-century Spain Zahira Véliz; 3. Velázquez and Italy Jonathan Brown; 4. Velázquez and the North Alexander Vergara; 5. 'Sacred and terrifying gazes': languages and images of power in Early Modern Spain Antonio Feros; 6. Court women in the Spain of Velázquez Magdalena S. Sánchez; 7. Spanish religious life in the age of Velázquez Sara T. Nalle; 8. Velázquez and two poets of the Baroque: Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo Lía Schwartz; 9. Calderón de la Barca, playwright at court Margaret R. Greer; 10. Three paintings, a double lyre, opera, and Eliche's Venus: Velázquez and music in the Royal Court in Madrid Louise K. Stein.

"The essays provide ... a touchstone for examining the directions in which scholarship on the artist is advancing and, equally important, pose new perspectives for relating the painter and his works to the art and culture of early modern Spain." Seventeenth Century News

• 1. Introduction: a brief history of Velázquez literature Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruit; 2. Becoming an artist in seventeenth-century Spain Zahira Véliz; 3. Velázquez and Italy Jonathan Brown; 4. Velázquez and the North Alexander Vergara; 5. 'Sacred and terrifying gazes': languages and images of power in Early Modern Spain Antonio Feros; 6. Court women in the Spain of Velázquez Magdalena S. Sánchez; 7. Spanish religious life in the age of Velázquez Sara T. Nalle; 8. Velázquez and two poets of the Baroque: Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo Lía Schwartz; 9. Calderón de la Barca, playwright at court Margaret R. Greer; 10. Three paintings, a double lyre, opera, and Eliche's Venus: Velázquez and music in the Royal Court in Madrid Louise K. Stein.

"The essays provide ... a touchstone for examining the directions in which scholarship on the artist is advancing and, equally important, pose new perspectives for relating the painter and his works to the art and culture of early modern Spain." Seventeenth Century News

• 1. Introduction: a brief history of Velázquez literature Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruit; 2. Becoming an artist in seventeenth-century Spain Zahira Véliz; 3. Velázquez and Italy Jonathan Brown; 4. Velázquez and the North Alexander Vergara; 5. 'Sacred and terrifying gazes': languages and images of power in Early Modern Spain Antonio Feros; 6. Court women in the Spain of Velázquez Magdalena S. Sánchez; 7. Spanish religious life in the age of Velázquez Sara T. Nalle; 8. Velázquez and two poets of the Baroque: Luis de Góngora and Francisco de Quevedo Lía Schwartz; 9. Calderón de la Barca, playwright at court Margaret R. Greer; 10. Three paintings, a double lyre, opera, and Eliche's Venus: Velázquez and music in the Royal Court in Madrid Louise K. Stein.