Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora, Quevedo was one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age. His style is characterized by what was called conceptismo. This style existed in stark contrast to Góngora's culteranismo.
Francisco de Quevedo, Juan van der Hamen, 17th century (Instituto Valencia de Don Juan)
Portrait of Quevedo (c. 1618) by Francisco Pacheco.
Casa Quevedo in Torre de Juan Abad.
Convent of San Marcos in León.
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic prebendary for the Church of Córdoba. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorismo. This style apparently existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's conceptismo, though Quevedo was highly influenced by his older rival from whom he may have isolated "conceptismo" elements.
Luis de Góngora (1622), in a portrait by Diego Velázquez.
Title page of the Chacon Manuscript.