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Velázquez is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest artists. The naturalistic style in which he was trained provided a language for the expression of his remarkable power of observation in portraying both the living model and still life.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, [a] [b] (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).
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.
Jun 7, 2021 · Diego Velázquez was an important painter of the Spanish Golden Age who influenced Realist and Impressionist painters of the nineteenth century.
Velázquez was born in 1599 in Seville in southern Spain, at that time an important city with a thriving artistic community. At the age of eleven, Velázquez was apprenticed to Francisco Pacheco, Seville's most significant artist and art theorist.
Apr 2, 2014 · Spanish painter Diego Velázquez was born circa June 6, 1599, in Seville, Spain. Although his early paintings were religious-themed, he became renowned for his realistic, complex portraits as a ...
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Velázquez’s high ambitions to become a court painter –despite his modest social background—required him to move to Madrid, capital of the country and controller of a vast empire, but significantly the centre of court life.
