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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.
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.
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 ...
Baroque paintings by Diego Velázquez (1599−1660) — a renowned Spanish Baroque painter. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Print. Time-Life Library of Art. D'ORS, PABLO PÉREZ, et al. “Velázquez in Fraga: a New Hypothesis about the Portraits of El Primo and Philip IV.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 154, no. 1314, 2012, pp. 620–625. JSTOR, [2] "Dwarfs as seventeenth-century cynics at the court of Philip IV of Spain: a study of Velazquez' portraits of palace ...
The picture belongs to the group of portraits of jesters and "men of pleasure" of the court painted by Velázquez to decorate secondary rooms and passageways in the royal palaces. In these less important settings, the painter was able to test new expressive resources with greater freedom than in the official portraits of the royal family, with ...
Portrait of a Man is an oil painting by Diego Velázquez, measuring 68.6 × 55.2 cm (27 × 21 3 ⁄ 4 in.), the frame is from Northern Spain and painted c. 1630–1635. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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 ...