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Velasquez - The Painter of Painters
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Written
and Directed by Didier K. Baussy UK 1991 / Documentary
/ Color / 56 min / 1.331 Full Frame / Dolby 2.0 |
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| Passionate about painting, King Philip
IV was the largest art collector of his time, and the greatest servant
of this passion was Velazquez. Although he left a legacy of little
more than one hundred canvasses, Velazquez exerted an enormous influence
on other painters through the twentieth century, including such great
masters as Manet, Picasso, and Francis Bacon. In 1990, filmmaker Didier
Baussy-Oulianoff was given special access to film 79 Velazquez paintings
at the Prado in Madrid, Spain, creating a portrait of the artist to
reveal his character from his early artistic youth to the works for
the royal family and its entourage destined for the walls of the Spanish
palace.
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