Lives of Velázquez explore la and california Edited by Aïcha Ben Abed

Edited by Aïcha Ben Abed

and Panos Valavanis

Jo married the painter’s brother

Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California

Meadow and a preface by Bruce Robertson

Lives of Velázquez explore la and california Edited by Aïcha Ben AbedFrancisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino Lives of Velzquez brings together two seminal early accounts of the great seventeenth century Spanish painter (ca. 15991660). These texts, written by his contemporaries Francisco Pacheco and Antonio Palomino and newly translated for this volume, serve as our main sources of knowledge about this groundbreaking artist. Pachecos biography reveals the scale of the challenge to traditional painting presented by