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Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain

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Introduction -- Through the veils of pleasant fictions -- Civilization and its malcontents -- In the empire of Eros -- Heroes' quests and conquests -- The powers and limits of art -- Fateful figures -- Enter Velázquez - the philosophical quartet -- The contemplative mars -- Servants and masters -- Hunts and the closing of the circle -- Conclusion: forms of visual rhetoric.

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    Torre de la Parada (El Pardo, Spain)

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    • 1409462331
    • 9781409462330

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