The Vanishing Man

Resumen del libro

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 Velazquez, 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 Velazquez, bringing us closer to the creation and appreciation of his works than ever before.

Biografía del autor

Laura Cumming es crítica de arte jefe del Observer desde 1999. Entre sus libros destacan AFace to the World: On Self-Portraits (2009) y The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez(2016), que ganó el Premio James Tait Black de Biografía. Su libro de memorias familiares, On Chapel Sands: my Mother and other Missing Persons (2019) fue un bestseller del Sunday Times ypreseleccionado para los premios Baillie Gifford, Costa y Rathbone's Folio.