The philosophers of laughter: Velazquez' portraits of jesters at the court of Philip IV

Previous art historical scholarship has approached the portraits of court jesters painted for the Buen Retiro Palace by Diego Velazquez between the late 1620s and 1630s as fascinating character studies that provided the artist with the opportunity to display psychological nuances and to experiment w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Julie Vinsonhaler, 1961-
Other Authors: Wood, Jeryldene
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 1990
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291615