Artist: VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Painting: Buffoon Barbarroja nhg Introduction: c. 1636
Oil on canvas, 198 x 121 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Artist: VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Painting: The Needlewoman drg Introduction: c. 1640
Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Artist: VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Painting: Don Balthasar Carlos set Introduction: c. 1640
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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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