Velázquez, Painter & Curator

This book is first to address the curatorial career of Diego Vel?zquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Vel?zquez played in overseeing the display of the Habsburg art collection, then the richest in the western world, and the role, in turn, that this practice played in his creative trajectory between his arrival at the Spanish court in the 1623 and his death in 1660. This book thus recasts Vel?zquez's career as an episode with