ORF-E
English
1 x 33 min
Worldwide

“Truth, not art” is what Diego Velázquez sought to create, and he sugarcoated neither kings nor paupers in his works. The fascinating film, “The Velázquez project” shows that he himself was driven, a lateral thinker and maverick, who was considered a “craftsman” and did not belong to the nobility at the Spanish court, but who ultimately wished to be considered one of their own. The painters Herbert Brandl and Chen Danquin and the major exhibition, “Velázquez”, which was held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum [Museum of Art History] in the Austrian capital of Vienna, follow in the footsteps of the “painter’s painter” to the present day.