The young Velázquez: "The education of the Virgin" restored

Abstract

"Donated to Yale in 1925, the Yale University Art Gallery's Education of the Virgin--depicting Saint Anne teaching a young Virgin Mary to read--was long considered to be a work by an unknown Spanish artist. Considerably damaged, the painting was relegated to storage and never carefully studied until 2004, when John Marciari reattributed the work to Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), the most significant painter of the Spanish Golden Age. The extraordinary narrative of this painting and its reattribution is chronicled here, accompanied by a detailed description of the painting's conservation campaign and thoughtful analysis of the artist's technique."--

Contents

The Young Velázquez: Yale's Education of the Virgin / John Marciari -- The Education of the Virgin: A Conservation Narrative and Technical Examination / Carmen Albendea, Ian McClure, Anikó Bezur, and Jens Stenger -- The Education of the Virgin and the Shaping of Early Naturalism / Benito Navarrete Prieto.