Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez

baroque

Velazquez Paintings 1599 - 1660 Spain, Baroque Painter

Aesop, 1640

Oil on canvas, 70.47 x 37.01 inches [179 x 94 cm]

Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

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OIL PAINTING: Aesop, 1640
Aesop's face with its flattened nose was probably not - as is commonly thought - painted after a man of the people (even if the painting did attempt to show a simple man whose features were marked by toil, and who therefore represented the Cynic ideal of the modesty and wisdom of the people). The portrait of Aesop by Velazques seems rather more reminiscent of Giovanni Battista della Porta's physiognomic parallels between various types of human faces and the heads of animals associated with certain temperaments. Velazquez gave Aesop's face the fleshy features of the human "ox-head type" described in the physiognomical doctrines of della Porta, published in 1586, which calls Aesop's animal fables to mind.