A provocative study of a freedman Painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain Diego Velázquez\'s portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (April 3-July 16, 2023).
The book also includes the first illustrated and annotated list of known works attributed to Pareja.
The authors illuminate the highly skilled labor within Seville\'s multiracial society; the role of Black saints and confraternities in the promotion of Catholicism among enslaved populations; and early twentieth-century scholar Arturo Schomburg\'s project to recover Pareja\'s legacy.
This catalogue--the first scholarly monograph on Pareja-- discusses the painter\'s ties to the Madrid School of the 1660s and revises our understanding of artistic production during Spain\'s Golden Age, with a focus on enslaved artists and artisans. 1608-1670) has long been a landmark of European art, but this provocative study focuses on its subject: an enslaved man who went on to build his own successful career as an artist.
A provocative study of a freedman Painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain Diego Velázquez\'s portrait of Juan de Pareja (ca
