Artist: VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Painting: Juan de Pareja a Introduction: 1650
Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 69.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Artist: VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Painting: Details of King philip iv of spain Introduction: mk76
Painted in 1644
Oil on canvas
51 1/8x39 1/8in
Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1599-1660
Spanish painter. He was one of the most important European artists of the 17th century, spending his career from 1623 in the service of Philip IV of Spain. His early canvases comprised bodegones and religious paintings, but as a court artist he was largely occupied in executing portraits, while also producing some historical, mythological and further religious works. His painting was deeply affected by the work of Rubens and by Venetian artists, especially Titian, as well as by the experience of two trips (1629-31 and 1649-51) to Italy. Under these joint influences he developed a uniquely personal style characterized by very loose, expressive brushwork.
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