Diego Velázquez

1599–1660 · Spain · Baroque

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. Wikipedia

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Loose, liquid strokes that resolve into lifelike detail from a distance, sober greys and blacks, and a cool, natural light in deep rooms.

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“Las Meninas”, 1656 — Museo del Prado
“The Surrender of Brea”, 1634 — Museo del Prado
“Rokeby Venus”, 1644 — National Gallery
“Portrait of Innocent X”, 1649–1650 — Galleria Doria Pamphilj
“Las Hilanderas”, 1655 — Museo del Prado
“The Triumph of Bacchus”, 1628 — Museo del Prado
“Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan”, 1630 — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of Juan de Pareja”, 1650 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Old Woman Cooking Eggs”, 1618 — National Galleries of Scotland
“The Lunch”, 1617 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid”, 1632 — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares”, 1638 — Hermitage Museum
“The Jester Named Don John of Austria”, 1632 — Museo del Prado
“The Farmers' Lunch”, 1618 — Museum of Fine Arts
“Prince Balthasar Charles With a Dwarf”, 1631 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Prince Balthasar Charles as a Hunter”, 1636 — Museo del Prado
“María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain”, 1651 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Democritus”, 1628 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
“The Waterseller of Seville”, 1620 — Apsley House
“Portrait of the Jester Calabazas”, 1626 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“Portrait of Sebastián de Morra”, 1644 — Museo del Prado
“Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress”, 1659 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Philip IV of Spain”, 1656 — National Gallery
“Head of a Man in Profile”, 1618 — Hermitage Museum
“Christ Crucified”, 1632 — Museo del Prado
“Christ in the House of Martha and Mary”, 1618 — National Gallery
“Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain”, 1652 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Saint Paul”, 1618 — Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
“Mars Resting”, 1640 — Museo del Prado
“Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles”, 1634 — Museo del Prado
“Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares”, 1636 — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of Mariana of Austria”, 1652 — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of Prince Philip Prospero”, 1659 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Buffoon with books, formerly known as portrait of "el Primo"”, 1640 — Museo del Prado
“Coronation of the Virgin”, 1634 — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of Francisco Lezcano”, 1634 — Museo del Prado
“Infanta Margarita Teresa”, 1653 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV”, 1634 — Museo del Prado
“View of the Garden of the Villa Medici”, 1630 — Museo del Prado
“Kitchen Scene”, 1618 — Art Institute of Chicago

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