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DIEGO RODRIGUEZ
VELAZQUEZ
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Velązquez Diego (1599-1660), was an
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Las Meninas
Many characteristics of his style can be seen in one of his
masterpieces, Las Meninas (Maids of Honor). Las Meninas shows Velązquez
use of realism, rich colors, light and shadow, and his ability to place
his subjects in space. Despite the apparent effortless quality of his
paintings, Velązquez was a painstaking craftsman who constantly reworked
his canvases.
Pablo Picasso
His pictures have influenced such later artists as Gustave Courbet,
Edouard Manet, and Pablo Picasso. Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velązquez
was born in Seville. As a youth, he studied with Francisco Pacheco.
Pacheco taught him the style of the Italian artist Michelangelo
Caravaggio, characterized by its realism an use of somber light and dark
tones.
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Italy
Velązquez began to paint for King Philip IV in 1623, and was a
succesfull court painter for the rest of his life. In 1629 Velązquez
went to Italy, where he studied the art of ancient Rome and perfected
his ability to paint nudes. After his return to Spain in 1631, he
produced a series of great royal portraits as well as The Surrender of
Breda (The Lances), one of the world's finest historical paintings...
Nudes in Spanish art
Velązquez again visited Italy from 1649 to 1651. While in Rome he did a
penetrating potrait of Pope Innocent X and also painted his only pure
landscapes. After his return to Spain, Velązquez painted some of his
greatest pictures. These include his most dazzling court portraits,
Venus With a Mirror, one of the few nudes in Spanish art; The Spinners,
based on the Greek legend of Arachne; and Las Meninas.
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