Isabella, Queen of Spain
death of
Isabella of Portugal
Islam
Isle of Pheasants
Italian manner
Italy
Velázquez in
James, Henry
Jerónima de la Fuente, Mother
jesters and fools
Jesuits
Jews
conversos
persecution of
Velázquez’s ancestry and
Joseph’s Blood-stained Coat Brought to Jacob
Juana of Castile
Juan de Pareja
Juan II, Don
Julich
Justi, Carl
Justin of Nassau
kitchen and tavern scenes (bodegones)
Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus
Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
knighthood
Knight of Santiago
ladies-in-waiting
in Las Meninas
Ladislaw Sigismund, Prince of Poland
Lady with a Fan
lances
Lanciavecchia, Paolo Antonio
Lawrence, Sir Thomas
le Comte, Charles Philip
Leganes, Marquis de
Legasa, Bartolomé de
Leiden
Leonardo, Jusepe, Relief of Breisach
Leonardo da Vinci
Last Supper
Leopold, Emperor
Lepanto
Lerida
Lerma, Duke of
Leslie, Charles, Handbook for Young Painters
Lewis, Wyndham
Lezcano, Francisco
Lifrangi, Onofre di
London
Lope de Vega, Félix
Don Juan de Austria en Flandes
Lorraine
Lotti, Cosimo
Louis-Philippe, King of France
Louis XIII, King of France
Louis XIV, King of France
marriage of
Louvre, Paris
Low Countries
Lucena, Diego de
Luis de Góngora
Luxembourg
Madrid
Rubens in
of 1630s
of 1640s
of 1650s
See also court, Madrid
Maes, Nicolaes
The Listening Housewife
Maidalchini, Donna Olimpia
Maino, Juan Bautista, Recapture of Bahia
Málaga
malaria
Malines
Malpica, Marquis of
Manet, Edouard
Manila
Mansfeld, Count
Mansfelt, Count Karel, von
Mantua
Mantua, Duke of
Manzoni, Alessandro, The Bethrothed
Margaret of Parma
Margarita, Infanta
Maria Anna, Queen of Hungary
María Magdalena de Agreda, Sister
Mariana, Queen of Spain
María Teresa, Princess
marriage to Louis XIV
Mars at Rest
Martínez, Jusepe
Mary of Burgundy
Massimi, Camillo
Massinci, Vincenzo
Master of the Cassoni Campana, The Taking of Athens by Minos
Matanzas Bay, Cuba
Mateos, Juan de
Maundy Thursday
Maurice of Nassau
at Breda
death of
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Mazarin, Cardinal
Mazo, Baltasar del
Mazo, Francisca Velázquez del
death of
Mazo, Ines del
Mazo, Juan Batista Martinez del
as court painter
Portrait of the Artist’s Family
Mazo, María Teresa Martínez del
McKim Smith, G.
Medici, Cardinal Carlo de’
Medici, Lorenzo de’
Medina-Sidonia, Duke of
Meede
Melgar, Diego de
Mendoza, Andres de
Mengs, Anton
Mengs, Raphael
Meninas, Las
themes and composition
Menippus
Mercury and Argus
Mexia, Juana
Mexico
Michelangelo
Last Judgment
Moses
Milan
mirror scenes
Las Meninas
Mitelli, Agostino
Modena
Modena, Duke of
Mol, Pieter Laurens
money
Montagu, Jennifer
Montañés, Juan Martínez
St. Hermenegild
Monterrey, Count of
Montesclaro, Marquesa of
Monzon
Moors
Mor, Antonio
Moriscos
expulsion of
Moro, Antonio
Morocco
Morritt, John
Musical Trio, The
Muslims
mustaches
Mytens, Daniel
Naarden
Najera, Duke of
Naples
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nardi, Angelo
Nassau family
Nero
Netherlands
siege of Breda
war with Spain
Nieto, José
noble blood
Nördlingen
North Africa
nudes
Nuñez, Francisco
Ocana
Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van
Old Woman Cooking Eggs, An
Olivares, Count of (Gaspar de Guzmán)
death of
Orange-Nassau family
Order of Santiago
Order of the Golden Fleece
Ortega y Gasset, José
Ostend
Ottoman Turks
outdoor scenes
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Pablo de Valladolid
Pacheco, Francisco
Arte de la Pintura
death of
Portrait of an Elderly Man and Woman
Velázquez as apprentice to
Pacheco, Juana
painting
apprenticeship
color and light
composition
perspective
priming and grounds
split-screen effect
techniques and style
See also specific works, genres, and themes
Palacio Real
Palacios, Francisco de
Palomino
El Museo Pictorio
Pamphili, Cardinal
Panciroli, Cardinal
Pantheon, Rome
Papacy
Paramo, Maria del
Pareja, Juan de
The Calling of St. Matthew
Paris
Parker, Geoffrey
Parma
Parma, Duchess of
Parma, Duke of
Parmigianino
particulares
Pater, Walter
Paul III, Pope
Peace of the Pyrenees
Peace of Westphalia
Peninsula War
pentimenti
Peregrina, La
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo, The Sun over Breda
Pernia, Cristobal de
Pertusato, Nicolas
Peru
Pestel, Thomas
Philip I, King of Castile
Philip II, King of Spain
Philip III, King of Spain
Philip IV
Philip IV, King of Spain
aging looks of
childhood of
collection of, see specific artists and works
court life
death of
dwarfs and jesters of
on horseback
Isle of Pheasants journey
leadership style
royal hunts
Velázquez’s portraits of
Velázquez’s relationship with
Philip IV at Fraga
Philip IV in Brown and Silver
Philip IV on Horseback
Philippines
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
Picasso, Pablo
Pimental, Don Juan de
pirates
plague
Pliny, Natural History
Ponz, Antonio
Pope Innocent X
Portrait of a Man, perhaps José Nieto
portraits, court
Portugal
Poussin, Nicolas
Prado Museum, Madrid
printmaking
Protestantism
Proust, Marcel, In Search of Lost Time
Puerto Rico
Pyrenees
Quevedo, Don Francisco de
El Buscón
Raphael
Sistine Madonna
Reapers’ War
Reformation
religion
art
persecution
See also specific religions
religious scenes
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Artist in his Studio
Retiro palace
fire
Hall of Realms
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Rheinfelden
Rhine Valley
Ribera, José de
The Immaculate Conception
Ribera, María
Richelieu, Cardinal
Rioja, Domingo de la
Rioja, Francisco de
Rocroi
Rodríguez, María
Roelas, Juan de
Rokeby Venus, The. See Toilet of Venus, The
Rome
Velázquez in
Rosa, Salvator
Rubens, Peter Paul
Adoration of the Magi
Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV
The Horrors of War
in Madrid
Three Graces
Toilet of Venus
Velázquez and
Rudofsky, Bernard
Ruskin, John
Sacchetti, Cardinal Guilio
Sahl, Ibn
Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Paul the Hermit
St. John the Evangelist
Sandrart, Joachim
Santa Rufina
Sargent, John Singer
Sarmiento, Don Diego
Sarmiento, Dona María Agustina
Savoy, Duke of
Saxons
Schiller, Johann, Don Carlos
Schongauer, Martin
science
Sculptor Martínez Montañés at Work, The
sculpture
casts
scurvy
Searle, John
Self-Portrait
self-portraits
Seville
Catholicism and
gritty life in
Inquisition
trade
Velázquez in
water sellers
Seville Cathedral
Shakespeare, William
The Tempest
Shaw, George Bernard, The Doctor’s Dilemma
sibyls
Sibyl with Tabula Rosa, A
silver
slaves
manumission
as painters
smallpox
Snaeyers, Pieter, The Capture of Aire-sur-le-Lys
Spain
bankruptcy
expulsion of Moriscos
Inquisition
Peninsula War
siege of Breda
society
war with France
war with Netherlands
See also Army of Flanders; court, Madrid; specific rulers
Spanish Armada
Spanish Road
Spice Islands
Spinola, Ambrogio
at Breda
death of
leadership style
Velázquez and
Spinola, Federico
split-screen effect
Steen, Jan
Stevenson, R. A. M.
Stuarts
Surrender of Breda, The
afterlife of
composition
Dutch troops
fires
lances
self-portrait
size of
Spanish troops
techniques and materials
Sweden
Swinburne, Henry
Switzerland
Sybil
syphilis
Tacitus
Talavera, Archbishop
tapestries
taxation
meat
Tela Real, La
Teniers, David
Terborch, Gerard
Terheyden
Test, Fulvio
Teteringen
theater
Thirty Years War
Thucydides
Tintoretto
Crucifixion
Paradiso
Titian
Bacchanals
Gloria
Rape of Europa
Spain Coming to the Aid of Religion
Toilet of Venus, The
afterlife of
Toledo
Torre de la Pareda
Torrigiano, Pietro
Penitent St. Jerome
trade
Seville
Trajan
Triva, Flaminia
Tromp, Marten
trompe l’oeil
True Faith
Tudor, Mary
Tunisia
turfship
Twelve Years Truce
Two Young Men at Table
Uccello, Paolo, Battle of San Romano
Ulloa, Dona Marcela de
uniforms, army
Union of Utrecht
Urban VIII, Pope
Valdes, Fernando de
Valdovinos, José Manuel Cruz
Valencia
Valentin Diaz, Diego
Valentino, Giovanni Garzia
van Bergen, Adriaan
van Dyck, Anthony
van Eyck, Jan
The Arnolfini Marriage
van Gogh, Vincent
van Goyen, Jan
van Hohenlohe, Count Philip
van Leyden, Lucas
van Mierevelt, Michiel
van Noort, Adam
Vasari, Giorgio
Vatican
Velasco, Dona Isabel de
Velázquez, Diego:
ancestry and identity fraud
apprenticeship of
assistants of
becomes master painter
birth of
Caravaggio and
childhood of
children of
classical scenes
as court painter
court portraits
death and funerals of
dog scenes
dwarfs and jesters of
early paintings in Seville
ecclesiastical portraits
equestrian portraits
estate of
female nudes
history scenes
hunting scenes
Isle of Pheasants journey
in Italy
kitchen and tavern scenes
knighthood
marriage of
middle period of
mirror scenes
outdoor scenes
as part-time painter
phlegmatic attitude of
posthumous reputation, influence, and sales
relationship with Philip IV
religious scenes
in Rome
royal household duties
Rubens and
salary of
at sea
self-portraits
in Seville
sibyls
in 1630s Madrid
in 1640s Madrid and Aragon
in 1650s Madrid
as slaveowner
Spinola and
studio inventory
Tintoretto and
Titian and
Villa Medici scenes
See also drawing; painting; specific works, genres, themes, and techniques
Velázquez, Jerónima
Velázquez, Ignacia
Velázquez, Juan
Velázquez, Silvestre
Velázquez Moreno, Juan
Venerable Mother Jerónima de la Fuente, The
venereal disease
Venice
Vermeer, Johannes
Art of Painting
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Veronese, Paolo
Vienna
Villacis, Nicolas de
Villa Medici, Rome
statuary
Villa Medici, Rome (Gardens with Grotto Loggia)
Villanueva, Jerónimo de
Villareal, José de
Virgin Mary
Immaculate Conception
Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, The
Vondel
Vos, Martin de, Abraham and Melchisadek
Wallis, George Augustus
Waterseller of Seville, The
water sellers
water wars
Wellington, Duke of
West Indies
Whistler, James McNeill
White, Jon Manchip
“Wilhelmus”
Wilkie, Sir David
William of Orange (William the Silent)
wool
World War I
World War II
Ximenes, Archbishop
Young Woman Sewing
Zaragoza
Zeeland
Zuniga, Baltasar de
Zurawski, Simone
Zurbarán, Francisco
Zutphen
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANTHONY BAILEY, a writer for The New Yorker for thirty-five years, has been called “one of the best descriptive writers of his generation” (John Russell, the New York Times). Among his many books are two on Rembrandt, one recently on Vermeer, and most recently a biography, John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own.
Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus, c. 1618-20. Oil on canvas.
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
The Waterseller of Seville, 1618–22. Oil on canvas.
Apsley House, London.
Villa Medici, Rome (Gardens with Grotto Loggia), 1630. Oil on canvas.
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
The Surrender of Breda, 1634–35. Oil on canvas.
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
The Surrender of Breda (detail: Justin of Nassau and Ambrogio Spinola)
King Philip IV at Fraga (Philip IV at Fraga), 1644. Oil on canvas.
Frick Collection, New York.
Juan de Pareja, 1650. Oil on canvas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Pope Innocent X, 1649–50. Oil on canvas.
Galleria Doria-Pamphil j, Rome.
The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus), c. 1650. Oil on canvas.
National Gallery, London.
Infanta Margarita in Pink, 1653. Oil on canvas.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
The Fable of Arachne (The Spinners), c. 1656. Oil on canvas.
Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Mercury and Argus, c. 1659. Oil on canvas.