Diego Velázquez

Buenos Aires, 1977. During the military dictatorship, Francisco Sanctis receives information about two people sentenced to 'disappear.' A quiet middle-aged family man without any political ties, Francisco is stunned by the urgency of his situation. That night he must make a crucial decision: whether or not to risk his own life to save others

Substantive essays examine the world of seventeenth-century Spain and the path that Velazquez followed in his courtly and artistic career; with assessments of each of the pictures, comparative illustrations of all of the artist's major works and representative paintings by his contemporaries.