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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

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 | #336505 in Books |  Laura C |  2016-04-12 |  2016-04-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||32 of 34 people found the following review helpful.| A hunt for a painting...|By Jill Meyer|About 35 years ago, I noticed a painting in a window of a local art gallery/semi-curiosity shop in the Chicago suburb where I lived. It was a largish painting of a young girl in Spanish court garb, and looked for all the world like a painting by Diego Velazquez. The painting was priced at $2000 - well-beyond my budget at the time - but I| |"A sumptuous, impressively erudite effort by Laura Cumming, the art critic at the Observer, in London, to retrace Snare’s attempts to determine the painting’s elusive pedigree. But it’s a good deal more than that. The book is a pair of biogra

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From one of the world’s most expert art critics, the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.

When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, ...

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