Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 1996
Steven N. Orso. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 208 pp. + 81 illus. $70.
Velazquez's first major mythological painting, "Los Borrachos" [The Drunkards], is an enigmatic work that has both delighted and puzzled its viewers over the centuries. The wide variety of titles -- well over ten -- by which the painting has been known attests to its elusive resistance to a definitive reading. Steven Orso's meticulously researched and convincingly argued study advances a new and intriguing interpretation of the painting, and proposes a correspondingly new title: "Bacchus in Iberia."
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