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Article: Velazquez in London.(Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez )
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez is often thought of as a painter of people but his early pictures are best regarded as still lifes. Three Musicians (1616-1617) should be renamed "Bread on a table napkin," Tavern Scene (1616-1617) should be called "Knife and bursting Pomegranate," and An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618) "Eggs being Cooked." These early paintings, all of them on view in this excellent exhibition at the National Gallery in London, organized by the American art scholar Dawson W. Carr, are remarkable not for the people in them but for the objects. (1) The party line on these early paintings is that they show how the young Velazquez was able to use his ...
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