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Luis de Zulueta (Madrid, 1913 – Bogotá 2003) studied at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, a place that marked his character and sensitivity. His father was ambassador to the Vatican at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and the family was forced into exile in Bogota. Luis de Zulueta then moved to New York and worked at the MOMA. He developed a great friendship with Luis Buñuel and they moved to Hollywood to work for Warner Brothers. Zulueta returned to Colombia when his parents’ health deteriorated, and after their death, he returned to Spain, living in Ronda and then Madrid. During the 1990’s he frequently lodged at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where he delivered his lecture, Luis Buñuel: de la Residencia al fantasma de la libertad, and began an ambitious, unfinished book on Don Quijote, as well as this book.

Velázquez: es verdad, no pintura is his approach to Velázquez’s work, his life at the Spanish Royal Court, especially his relationship with Philip the Fourth.It is also the vision of a free-thinker, in the spirit of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and the Residencia de Estudiantes. This essay has its origins in a conversation at the Residencia between Álvaro Mutis and Jacobo Fitz-James Suart about Velázquez exhibition at the Prado Museum, in 1990.

PAPERBACK. 11 × 16 cm, 224 pp.
ISBN: 978-84-95078-30-8