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Velázquez is recognized as the leading Spanish painter of the seventeenth century and as one of the greatest masters of the art. He was born in Seville in 1599, the son of parents of the lower nobility or gentry. His teacher was the painter-theorist Francisco Pacheco, who introduced his pupil to the techniques of painting and provided him with ...
Diego Velázquez: 12 works. A slideshow of artworks auto-selected from multiple collections. By Google Arts & Culture. Luis de Góngora y Argote (1622) by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 'Velázquez's abilities as both painter and observer make him one of the great portraitists of Western painting; this early ...
The artist achieved his intentions and Las Meninas became the only work to which the writer on art Antonio Palomino devoted a separate section in his history of Spanish painters of 1724, entitling it In which the most illustrious work by Don Diego Velázquez is described. Since then the painting has never lost its status as a masterpiece.
