Diego Velázquez
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered o
Self-portrait, c. 1640
Birthplace of Velázquez in Seville
Old Woman Frying Eggs (1618). National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Philip IV in Brown and Silver, 1632, National Gallery London
Portrait of Juan de Pareja
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The Portrait of Juan de Pareja is a painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez of the enslaved Juan de Pareja, a notable painter in his own right, who was owned by Velázquez at the time the painting w
Diego Velázquez
…by the Pope; in fact Innocent was pleased with the work, and hung it in his official visitor's waiting room. In 1650 in Rome Velázquez also painted a portrait of Juan de Pareja, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This portrait procured his election into the Accademia di San Luca. Purportedly Velázquez…
Retrato de Juan Pareja, by Diego Velázquez