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  1. The magic of Velázquez has influenced artists from his contemporaries to Manet and Picasso. Jamie Katz. April 2011. Born in Seville in 1599, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was the very ...

  2. The influence of contemporary Italian artists may be seen in his mastery of perspective and his rendering of the male nude in the two large canvases he painted in Rome, The Forge of Vulcan (Museo del Prado, Madrid) and Joseph’s Coat Presented to Jacob (Escorial, Madrid).

  3. In the late nineteenth century, artists such as James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent were strongly influenced by Velázquez. [17]

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    Diego Velázquez was one of the most important Spanish painters of the 17th century, a giant of Western art. He had a keen eye and a prodigious facility with the brush. His works often show strong modeling and sharp contrasts of light, resembling the dramatic lighting technique called tenebrism.

    What is Diego Velázquez famous for?

    As Philip IV’s court painter, Diego Velázquez painted many royal portraits, notably Las meninas (1656). Yet he was also known for popularizing the bodegón, or kitchen scene, in such early works as An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618). Other famous pieces include his portraits of Pope Innocent X (c. 1650) and Juan de Pareja (1650).

    What was Diego Velázquez’s family like?

    Diego Velázquez was the eldest child of João Rodrigues da Silva, a lawyer, and Jerónima Velázquez. Toward the end of his apprenticeship with Francisco Pacheco, Velázquez married his master’s daughter, Juana. They had two daughters.

    How was Diego Velázquez educated?

    According to Palomino, Velázquez’s first master was the Sevillian painter Francisco Herrera the Elder. In 1611 Velázquez was formally apprenticed to Francisco Pacheco, whose daughter he married in 1618. “After five years of education and training,” Pacheco writes, “I married him to my daughter, moved by his virtue, integrity, and good parts and by the expectations of his disposition and great talent.” Although Pacheco was himself a mediocre Mannerist painter, it was through his teaching that Velázquez developed his early naturalistic style. “He worked from life,” writes Pacheco, “making numerous studies of his model in various poses and thereby he gained certainty in his portraiture.” He was not more than 20 when he painted the Waterseller of Seville (c. 1620), in which the control of the composition, colour, and light, the naturalness of the figures and their poses, and realistic still life already reveal his keen eye and prodigious facility with the brush. The strong modeling and sharp contrasts of light and shade of Velázquez’s early illusionistic style closely resemble the technique of dramatic lighting called tenebrism, which was one of the innovations of the Italian painter Caravaggio. Velázquez’s early subjects were mostly religious or genre (scenes of daily life). He popularized a new type of composition in Spanish painting, the bodegón, a kitchen scene with prominent still life, such as An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618). Sometimes the bodegones have religious scenes in the background, as in Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (c. 1618). The Adoration of the Magi (1619) is one of the few Sevillian paintings of Velázquez that have remained in Spain.

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  4. Extraordinary artistic achievements in music, art and literature created a “Golden Age” in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, paralleling the rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburgs’ political power and influence in Europe.

  5. Jun 1, 2015 · The disc also includes solo keyboard music, for harpsichord by Cabezón, and for organ by Correa de Arauxo, well played by Jean-Marc Aymes and Bernard Foccroulle, respectively, and is completed by several secular vocal items, including pieces by Hidalgo and Anon.

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  7. Nov 26, 2012 · It includes essays on the religious and gender context in Velázquezs work at court; his relationship with Italy, northern Europe, and contemporary writers; and the links between his art and court music.

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