TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cumming,Laura 
TI  - VANISHING MAN : In Pursuit of Velázquez
SN  - 9780099587040
U1  - 927.5 
PY  - 2017////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Biography
KW  - Persons in the arts and recreation
KW  - Booksellers and bookselling
KW  - Painters
KW  - Velázquez, Diego, -- 1599-1660
KW  - Snare, John
KW  - Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y -- 1599-1660
N1  - In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Vel zquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile.

Fusing detection and biography, this book shows how and why great works of art can affect us, even to the point of mania. And on the trail of John Snare, Cumming makes a surprising discovery of her own. But most movingly, The Vanishing Man is an eloquent and passionate homage to the Spanish master Vel zquez, bringing us closer to the creation and appreciation of his works than ever before; Laura Cumming (born July 1961) the art critic for The Observer. In addition to her career in journalism, Cumming has written well-received books on self-portraits in art and the discovery of a lost portrait by Diego Velazquez in 1845
ER  -