Ebook {Epub PDF} Painter to the King by Amy Sackville

Amy Sackville’s Painter to the King is one such work. It is, ostensibly, a fictional biography of Diego Velázquez, covering in particular the decades he spent in the service of King Philip IV of Spain and the relationship which developed between the artist and the monarch who was his royal/loyal patron/5. Top reviews from other countries. The artist in Amy Sackville's 'Painter to the King' is Diego Velazquez, who left Seville in and arrived in Madrid at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, where his artistic brilliance was soon rewarded by the king who appointed him as court painter/5(56).  · Painter to the King by Amy Sackville review – a virtuoso portrait of Velázquez. ‘The painter is a rare fixed point’ from Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. Photograph: Museo Nacional del Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

Amy Sackville FRSL (born ) is a British writer whose debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.. Sackville studied English and theatre studies at Leeds University, followed by an MPhil at Oxford's Exeter College before taking a job in the publishing industry. She also studied an MA in creative writing at London's Goldsmiths College. "This is a portrait of Diego Velázquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain in May , to his death 38 years and several hundred paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between a king and his subject and between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of. Painter to the King. by. Amy Sackville (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · ratings · 67 reviews. This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist.

Velazquez's 'Old Woman Frying Eggs' National Galleries of Scotland/Sarah Clark. Inevitably, the story begins and (almost) ends with Las Meninas. Inspired by the art and life of Diego Velázquez, Amy Sackville tops and tails her third novel with his endlessly enigmatic group portrait from It shows the Spanish royal household, their dwarves, a mastiff, a perplexing reflection of the King and Queen in a mirror – and the court painter himself, trapped forever in this nest of “sometimes. Amy Sackville’s Painter to the King is one such work. It is, ostensibly, a fictional biography of Diego Velázquez, covering in particular the decades he spent in the service of King Philip IV of Spain and the relationship which developed between the artist and the monarch who was his royal/loyal patron. The artist in Amy Sackville's 'Painter to the King' is Diego Velazquez, who left Seville in and arrived in Madrid at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, where his artistic brilliance was soon rewarded by the king who appointed him as court painter.