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This is a list of paintings and drawings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Velázquez is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases. [1] Among these paintings, however, are many widely known and influential works. All paintings are in oil on canvas unless noted.
46 artworks by or after Diego Velázquez at the Art UK site; Velázquez works at the Web Gallery of Art; Velázquez at Artcyclopedia.com; 202 paintings by Diego Velázquez at DiegoVelazquez.org; Diego Velázquez at WikiPaintings.org; Diego Velazquez's Online Exhibition at Owlstand.com; Diego Velázquez, Collection of resources and illustrated ...
The art historian Svetlana Alpers suggests that, by portraying the artist at work in the company of royalty and nobility, Velázquez was claiming high status for both the artist and his art, [65] and in particular to propose that painting is a liberal rather than a mechanical art. This distinction was a point of controversy at the time.
Stylistic elements, such as the lightness, the economical use of paint, and the clear influence of the Italian Baroque, have led most scholars to assert that it was painted in 1657-58. Others place it between 1644–48, perhaps because certain aspects of its form and content recall the bodegones Velázquez painted in his early career.
Baroque paintings by Diego Velázquez (1599−1660) — a renowned Spanish Baroque painter. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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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 ...
The idealization of the god's face is highlighted by the clear light which illuminates him in a more classicist style. [3] The right side, however, presents some drunkards, men of the streets that invite us to join their party, with a very Spanish atmosphere similar to José de Ribera in style. There is no idealization present in their large ...