The Young Velázquez

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“The Education of the Virgin” Restored

Essays by John Marciari, Carmen Albendea, Ian McClure, Anikó Bezur, Jens Stenger, and Benito Navarrete Prieto

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Donated to the museum in 1925, the Yale University Art Gallery’s Education of the Virgin—depicting Saint Anne teaching a young Virgin Mary to read—was long considered to be a work by an unknown Spanish artist. Considerably damaged, the painting was relegated to storage and never carefully studied until 2005, when John Marciari reattributed the work to Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), the most significant painter of the Spanish Golden Age. The extraordinary narrative of this painting and its reattribution is chronicled here, accompanied by a detailed description of the painting’s conservation campaign and thoughtful analysis of the artist’s technique.

Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

Exhibition Schedule:

Espacio Santa Clara, Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla, Seville
(10/15/14–01/15/15)

John Marciari is the Charles W. Engelhard Curator and Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York. Carmen Albendea and Ian McClure are conservators at the Yale University Art Gallery. Anikó Bezur is director of scientific research at Yale University's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Jens Stenger is associate conservation scientist at Yale University's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Benito Navarrete Prieto is a professor of the history of art at the University of Alcalá and the director of cultural infrastructure and heritage for Seville City Council.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Espacio Santa Clara, Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla, Seville
(10/15/14–01/15/15)

ISBN: 9780300207866
Publication Date: November 18, 2014
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

76 pages, 8 x 11 1/4
40 color + 7 b/w illus.

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