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A comprehensive Study on Velazquez and the Spanish Court Painters-the Painter's Image, System and Society.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12610064
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fine art history
Research InstitutionWaseda University (2001-2002)
Sophia University (2000)

Principal Investigator

OTAKA Yasujiro  Waseda University, School of letters, Arts and Sciences, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (70118503)

Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
KeywordsCourt painter / Philip IV / Velazquez / Judeo-converso / Paragone / Equestrian portrait / Las Hi landeras / Allegory of five senses / トーレ・デ・ラ・パラーダ / ヴィラ・メディチ / ジョナサン・ブラウン / 宮廷肖像 / イソップ / デモクリトス / モンタニェース / タッカ / ハプスブルク / ガリレオ / コンベルソ / パチェーコ / ボデゴン / サンチャーゴ騎士団
Research Abstract

1.While the history of the interpretation of Las Hilanderas in itself represents the vicissitudes in the historical evaluation of Velazquez, it offers a typical case for examining the "discovery" of Spain or the reception of its art in Western countries.
2.Contrary to the traditional belief in Velazquez's lower aristocratic origins (hidalgo), it has been proved that he belonged to a wealthy but common family of converted Jewish (judeo-converso) descent, which had migrated from Portugal to Seville in the second half of the sixteenth century. Some of the family members were notary publics while others were engaged in the real estate business. This background seems to have been crucial to the development of his marked realism and humanistic spirit, which were to lead him to open up a new, distinctively Spanish ground in Baroque painting.
3.Iconographically, Velazquez's Portrait of the Sculptor Martinez Montanez could be understood within the tradition of the paragone controversy, one of the common artistic topics in sixteenth-century Italy ; nevertheless, the painting needs to be considered beyond the limit of this dispute between painting and sculpture over superiority. It is not impossible, on the other hand, to interpret it in relation to the "sight" and the "touch" of a series of the "Allegory of Five Senses".
4.In 1630's the Florentine sculptor Pietro Tacca was commissioned to make a bronze equestrian portrait of Philip IV. The idea of this dynamic large-scale equestrian statue standing up on the hind legs is presumably related to the so-called Madrid Manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci, which was then in possession of a Spanish nobleman and was well-known in the Madrid court.
5.In his portraits of the royal family and courtiers Velazquez succeeds in synthesizing the two different traditions of the Spanish court portraits since the sixteenth century : the Flemish and the Venetian.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All Other

All Publications (11 results)

  • [Publications] 大高保二郎: "パチェーコの『絵画論』解題"スペイン・ラテンアメリカ美術史研究. 1号. 21-23 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 大高保二郎: "封印された野望-ベラスケス 平民から貴族へ-"西洋美術研究. No.4. 45-65 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 大高保二郎: "ベラスケスと宮廷肖像-伝統と革新-"展覧会図録『プラド美術館展』国立西洋美術館. 31-36 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 大高保二郎: "ベラスケス作《彫刻家モンタニェースの肖像》をめぐる諸問題-"パランゴン"の超克へ"早稲田大学大学院文学研究科紀要. 47輯第3分冊. 105-133 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Otaka, Yasujiro: "Homage to Pacheco aid his Arte de la Pintura"Estudios de Arte Espanoly Latinoemericano. No.1,2000. 21-23

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Otaka, Yasujiro: "An Aspiration Sealed : Velazquez, from a Commoner to the Caballero de Santiago"Studies in Western Art. No.4,2000. 45-65

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Otaka, Yasujiro: "Velazquez and the Court portrait : Tradition and Innovation"Cataloguo of Ex "Obras maestras del Museo del Prado" (The National Museum of Western Art). 2002. 31-36

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Otaka, Yasujiro: "Some problems regarding Juan Martinez Montinez by Velazquez : beyond the Parangon in the Age of Baroque Spain"Bulletin of the Graduate Division of Literature of Waseda University. No.47, III. 105-133 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 大高保二郎: "ベラスケスと宮廷肖像-伝統と革新-"『プラド美術館展』図録. 31-36,50-67,146-155 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 大高保二郎: "ベラスケス作<<彫刻家モンタニェースの肖像>>をめぐる諸問題-パランゴンの超克へ-"早稲田大学大学院 文学研究科紀要. 48(3分冊). 105-133 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 大高保二郎: "封印された野望ベラスケス平民から貴族へ"西洋美術研究. 4. 45-65 (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report

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