The Vanishing Velázquez by Laura Cumming
A lyrical, detective-like investigation into the disappearance of a masterpiece and the people who spent generations searching for it, tracing how a lost Velázquez painting shaped obsessions about authenticity, ownership and national pride; the narrative moves between seventeenth-century Spain and nineteenth-century Europe as the author follows archival clues, art dealers, collectors and restorers, probing how artworks vanish and reappear in memory, record and myth, and how their absence can reveal as much about history and human longing as their presence.
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