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Diego Velázquez

Spanish Baroque painter of the court of Philip IV.

Diego Velázquez

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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter who served as the leading court artist for King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal.[1] Velázquez was baptized on 6 June 1599 in Seville, Spain, and died on 6 August 1660.[1][2]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
Baptised
6 June 1599
Birthplace
Seville, Spain
Died
6 August 1660 (aged 61)
Place of death
Madrid, Spain
Field
Painting
Movement
Spanish Baroque

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

He was apprenticed to artist and teacher Francisco Pacheco under a contract signed on 17 September 1611.[3] Velázquez married Pacheco's daughter Juana on 23 April 1618.[4] He traveled to Madrid in April 1622 and eventually became court painter to Philip IV in 1623.[5][6] He returned to Madrid in January 1631 and produced many portraits of the royal family, including equestrian portraits for the Palacio del Buen Retiro.[7][8]

His magnum opus, Las Meninas, was painted in 1656 and features the Infanta Margaret Theresa.[9] In Seville, Juan Rodríguez de Silva, a notary, and Jerónima Velázquez had their first child, who was named Diego.[2] Diego da Silva and María Rodríguez, the artist's paternal grandparents, were originally from Portugal and relocated to Seville many years before his birth.[10] Among Velázquez's initial productions were bodegones, which are kitchen scenes featuring prominent still-life elements; an example from 1618 is Old Woman Frying Eggs.[11]

The date of Velázquez's death is recorded as 6 August 1660.[1]

What the cited sources add

Yasujiro Otaka's 2000 paper states that Velázquez has been held in the highest esteem as one of the most popular and exemplary artists of Spain.[12] Otaka's paper aims to dismantle the myth that Velázquez's art is aristocratic by nature.[12] The same source notes that the decoration of the Chapel of the 'Madonna of the Vow' with sculptures and reliefs probably designed by Bernini caused a decline in taste among patrons.[12]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Diego Velazquez", Encyclopedia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Carr et al. 2006, p. 26. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Carr et al. 2006, p. 53.; Harris 1982, p. 9. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Juana and Diego Velazquez Marriage Profile", Marriage.about.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Carr et al. 2006, p. 245.; Carr et al. 2006, p. 144.; Carr et al. 2006, pp. 29, 245. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Carr et al. 2006, p. 245.; Carr et al. 2006, p. 245.; Harris 1982, pp. 12, 200. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sánchez, Alfonso E. Pérez (1 January 2003). "Velázquez, Diego". Grove Art Online.; Asturias and Bardi 1969, p. 93. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sánchez, Alfonso E. Pérez (1 January 2003). "Velázquez, Diego". Grove Art Online.; Carr et al. 2006, p. 38.; Carr et al. 2006, p. 38. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Asturias and Bardi 1969, p. 106.; Gower, "Sir Thomas Lawrence", Goupil & co, 1900, p. 83; Carr et al. 2006, p. 48. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Samuel, "The Jewish ancestry of Velasquez", Jewish Historical Studies, 17 June 1996, p. 27–32; Newitt, Malyn (2009). Portugal in European and World History. London: Reaktion Books. p. 98. .; Otaka, "An Aspiration Sealed", Special Issue: Art History and the Jew, September 2000; Cómez Ramos, "La parentela de Velázquez", Laboratorio de Arte, 2002, p. 383–388 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Diego Velázquez" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Carr et al. 2006, p. 27.; Carr et al. 2006, p. 29. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Otaka, "An Aspiration Sealed", Special Issue: Art History and the Jew, September 2000. facts only, no text reused. sangensha.co.jp

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Diego Velázquez (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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