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Movement. Baroque. Signature. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, [a] Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the Baroque period (c. 1600–1750).
Signed and dated "Diego Velazquez f. 1620". The phylactery around the cross with its inscription, now illegible, was erased in 1944, after entering at the Museum, for having believed apocryphal. [4] 18/20 La venerable madre Jerónima de la Fuente: 1620 162.5 × 105 Colección Fernández Araoz, Madrid Signed and dated "Diego Velazquez f. 1620".
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, New Spain. Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar[note 1] (1465 – c. June 12, 1524) was a Spanish conquistador and the first governor of Cuba. In 1511 he led the successful conquest and colonization of Cuba. As the first governor of the island, he established several municipalities that remain important to this day and ...
Dimensions. 318 cm × 276 cm (125.2 in × 108.7 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Las Meninas (Spanish for ' The Ladies-in-waiting '[a] pronounced [las meˈninas]) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in ...
1634–35. Type. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 307 cm × 367 cm (121 in × 144 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. La rendición de Breda (English: The Surrender of Breda, also known as Las lanzas – The Lances) is a painting by the Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez. It was completed during the years 1634–35, inspired by ...
The subject of the painting is the waterseller, a common trade for the lower classes in Velázquez's Seville.The jars and victuals recall bodegón paintings. The seller has two customers: a young boy, possibly painted from the same model as used for the boys in The Lunch and Old Woman Cooking Eggs, and a young man in the background shadows, (time has caused him to fade somewhat; he is clearer ...
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (Spanish: Apolo en la Fragua de Vulcano), sometimes referred to as Vulcan's Forge, is an oil painting by Diego de Velázquez completed after his first visit to Italy in 1629. Critics agree that the work should be dated to 1630, the same year as his companion painting Joseph's Tunic.
202 cm (80 in) × 105.5 cm (41.5 in) × 3.5 cm (1.4 in) Location. São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil. Accession No. MASP.00171. [ edit on Wikidata] The Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares is a 1624 portrait by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. It is housed in the São Paulo Museum of Art in São Paulo, Brazil.