Echoes on a Reused Canvas: Picasso and the Life of Images (1899)

Authors

  • Alfons Puigarnau Torelló UIC Barcelona
    Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/ba.47.2025.21061

Abstract

 In 2015, an X-ray scan reveals a mysterious man torso underneath Pablo Picasso’s ‘Man After El Greco’ to a group of art conservators. The author defends that the academic male nude is a fragment of a copy of one of the characters appearing in Diego Velázquez’s 1630’s ‘Vulcan’s Forge’. This analysis holds onto an anachronistic view over the three-in-one portrait in which there is a dialectical dialogue between El Greco painter’s formal distortions, Diego Velázquez classical technique, and Picasso as transcending temporal categories.

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Author Biography

  • Alfons Puigarnau Torelló, UIC Barcelona
    UIC Barcelona

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Published

2025-12-22

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How to Cite

Puigarnau Torelló, A. (2025). Echoes on a Reused Canvas: Picasso and the Life of Images (1899). Boletín De Arte, 47, 151-155. https://doi.org/10.24310/ba.47.2025.21061