Vintage Velazquez Diego Velazquez Margaretta Salinger PB 16 Art Prints 1954 USA

Authors: Diego Velazquez (paintings) and Margaretta Salinger (text)

Book Title: Velazquez, part of the Art Treasures of the World series

Format: Vintage oversized paperback art book/portfolio with sixteen beautiful full-color prints

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, New York

Publication year: Copyright 1954; printed in the United States of America

Language: English; narrative type: nonfiction art monograph

Topic: Life and work of Spanish Baroque painter Diego Velazquez, with biographical essay and commentary on major paintings

Intended audience: Adult readers, art students, museum visitors, and collectors of midcentury art books

Details: Includes introductory text by Margaretta Salinger of the Department of Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, along with sixteen full-color reproductions of Velazquez paintings and additional black-and-white illustrations

Cover artwork: Detail of The Spinners (The Fable of Arachne), painted about 1657, after the original in the Prado Museum, Madrid

Country of origin: Printed in the U.S.A.

Keywords: Velazquez art book, Art Treasures of the World portfolio, Harry N. Abrams 1950s paperback, Spanish Baroque painting monograph, museum-quality color plates, vintage midcentury art history book