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Velázquez. London: National Gallery, 2006. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, the most admired—perhaps the greatest—European painter who ever lived, possessed a miraculous gift for conveying a sense of truth.
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May 13, 2023 · The complete paintings of Velázquez, 1599-1660. by. Gudiol, José. Publication date. 1983. Topics. Velázquez, Diego, 1599-1660. Publisher. New York : Greenwich House : Distributed by Crown Publishers.
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Diego Velázquez was one of the most important Spanish painters of the 17th century, a giant of Western art. He had a keen eye and a prodigious facility with the brush. His works often show strong modeling and sharp contrasts of light, resembling the dramatic lighting technique called tenebrism.
What is Diego Velázquez famous for?
As Philip IV’s court painter, Diego Velázquez painted many royal portraits, notably Las meninas (1656). Yet he was also known for popularizing the bodegón, or kitchen scene, in such early works as An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618). Other famous pieces include his portraits of Pope Innocent X (c. 1650) and Juan de Pareja (1650).
What was Diego Velázquez’s family like?
Diego Velázquez was the eldest child of João Rodrigues da Silva, a lawyer, and Jerónima Velázquez. Toward the end of his apprenticeship with Francisco Pacheco, Velázquez married his master’s daughter, Juana. They had two daughters.
How was Diego Velázquez educated?
According to Palomino, Velázquez’s first master was the Sevillian painter Francisco Herrera the Elder. In 1611 Velázquez was formally apprenticed to Francisco Pacheco, whose daughter he married in 1618. “After five years of education and training,” Pacheco writes, “I married him to my daughter, moved by his virtue, integrity, and good parts and by the expectations of his disposition and great talent.” Although Pacheco was himself a mediocre Mannerist painter, it was through his teaching that Velázquez developed his early naturalistic style. “He worked from life,” writes Pacheco, “making numerous studies of his model in various poses and thereby he gained certainty in his portraiture.” He was not more than 20 when he painted the Waterseller of Seville (c. 1620), in which the control of the composition, colour, and light, the naturalness of the figures and their poses, and realistic still life already reveal his keen eye and prodigious facility with the brush. The strong modeling and sharp contrasts of light and shade of Velázquez’s early illusionistic style closely resemble the technique of dramatic lighting called tenebrism, which was one of the innovations of the Italian painter Caravaggio. Velázquez’s early subjects were mostly religious or genre (scenes of daily life). He popularized a new type of composition in Spanish painting, the bodegón, a kitchen scene with prominent still life, such as An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618). Sometimes the bodegones have religious scenes in the background, as in Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (c. 1618). The Adoration of the Magi (1619) is one of the few Sevillian paintings of Velázquez that have remained in Spain.
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From Pacheco, Velázquez learned the technical skills of drawing and painting, still-life and portraiture and soon surpassed his master. Unlike the more traditional Pacheco, he responded to the techniques of modern innovators such as Caravaggio .
Metropolitan Museum of Art
During 1629–1630 Velázquez traveled in Italy, a journey whose impact on his art is analyzed by Jonathan Brown in an essay in this volume. In 1631 Velázquez returned to Madrid to begin a busy decade, during which he would create a number of paintings to adorn the royal palaces.
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In this richly illustrated book, two widely recognised specialists on Velazquez - one an art historian, the other a conservation scientist - combine their expertise to show exactly how Spain's...
