这本全集汇集了Velazquez的完整作品，用超大的版式对它们进行了令人惊叹的复制，放大了一些细节，并结合了最近修复的画作的全新摄影，这些修复工作由TASCHEN和Wildenstein共同发起。书中令人眼花缭乱的图像伴有何塞•洛佩兹•雷（Jose Lopez-Rey）的有远见的评论，内容涉及Velazquez对人类的活力的兴趣和对所有主题的同等关注，从煎蛋的老妇到教皇或国王，以及他对色彩和光线的热情和投入，这份热情在两个世纪后仍然着影响印象派。

The painter's painter. Light, color and penetrating portraits from Spain's Golden Age luminary. Manet called him "the greatest painter of all." Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Monet, Renoir, and Degas were heavily influenced by the paintings of Philip IV's grand chamberlain. Francis Bacon famously painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Indeed, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599-1660) was more than the most important painter of the Spanish Golden Age. He is one of the most admired European painters who ever lived, and an authority and influence for generations of artists to come. This catalog raisonne brings together Velazquez's complete works, jaw-droppingly reproduced in extra-large format, with a selection of enlarged details and brand new photography of recently restored paintings, brought about by the joint initative of TASCHEN and Wildenstein. The book's dazzling images are accompanied by insightful commentary from Jose Lopez-Rey on Velazquez's interest in human liveliness and equal attention to all subjects, from an old woman frying eggs to a pope or a king, as well as his commitment to color and light, which would influence the Impressionists over two centuries later.