Identifier: historyofpainti03macf (find matches)
Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tion of the great historic acts of Spainas his motive, and with that consummate sense of fitnessthat distinguishes all he wrought, he designed withdecorative intent for the walls of this palace his famedSurrender of Breda and a series of large equestrian portraits,that have brought immortality to the wizardry of his genius.At the Prado may be seen also The Repulse of the English atCadiz, by Caxesi, one of those who assisted in this decora-tion; and, in the seeing, one realises the vast gulf thatseparated the art of Velazquez from that of his assistants.Twas well that Philip won the immortal skill of Velazquezto the painting of the triumph of Breda, for the invinciblelances of Spain were about to suffer defeat after defeaton land, as the invincible armada of Spain had sufferedat sea. 170 XIV VELAZQUEZ 1599 - 1660 REALIST SCHOOL OF SEVILLE OR ANDALUSIA THE SURRENDER OF BREDA(Las Lanzas) (Prado) Painted to glorify the surrender of Breda after the victory of Spinola overJ ustin de Nassau.
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OF PAINTING In the October of that year of 1629 that Velazquez WHEREINwent to Italy, there had been born to the king and Isabella SPAINof Bourbon, a son, Baltazar Carlos—the same year that BURSTSsaw the birth of the illegitimate Don Juan of Austria. NTOThe little Baltazar Carlos, on whom all the hopes of the FULLESTwayward king were thenceforth set, was in his second yearwhen the great painter returned to Madrid, and Velazquezwas to paint the manly child from his nursery days, withhis dwarf in attendance, to the eve of his death in mid-youth, in his sixteenth year. These portraits of the InfanteDon Baltazar Carlos nearly cover the whole of Velazquezssecond period. Nine years afterwards, in 1638, was bornto the king and Isabel a daughter, Maria Teresa, whomVelazquez was also to paint, and often. During these bright years in the life of the king andof Velazquez, many eminent people came to the SpanishCourt and were painted by Velazquezs brush—Madame deChevreuse was one of them, in 1

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