Diego Velázquez, born in Seville on June 6, 1599, is still considered one of the most important portrait painters of his time. He worked primarily as a painter at the court of the Spanish King Philip IV. Here he created his most famous work "Las Meninas" (The Royal Family).
Diego Velázquez was a student of Peter Paul Rubens. He was later appointed curator of the Royal Art Collection in Madrid. His portraits convey an almost plastic expression through precise brushwork. Although Velázquez was a master of his craft, he was plagued throughout his life by doubts regarding his art and life. He was considered a quiet and reserved person. He expressed this time and again in his paintings. They are pictures full of silence, order, symbolism and mysticism. The figures in his works sometimes seem stiff and wooden in their body language.
Life was elusive for Diego Velázquez, he also doubted its eternity. But it was precisely out of this doubt that his later paintings became more experimental. Clear contours blurred, many works were created inspirationally while painting, were no longer laboriously designed and prepared. It was precisely this style that influenced many later painters such as Francisco de Goya or the Impressionist Édouard Manet.
The symbolism of his works opened many possibilities of interpretation and interpretation to scholars. Diego Velázquez died on August 6, 1660 in Madrid.
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.jpg "The Coronation of the Virgin, 1635-1636 by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Don Sebastian de Morra, c.1643-44 by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "The Supper at Emmaus by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Adoration of the Magi. Detail of the heads of the wise kings. Painting by Diego Velasquez by Diego Velázquez")
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_1654_-_(MeisterDrucke-36896).jpg "Portrait of the Infanta Maria Marguerita by Diego Velázquez")
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_daughter_of_Philip_IV_P_-_(MeisterDrucke-972163).jpg "Portrait of the Infanta Margarita of Austria (1651-1673), daughter of Philip IV by Diego Velasquez (circa 1659). Dim. 2,12x1,47m. Madrid, Prado Museum by Diego Velázquez")
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_c1628-35_-_(MeisterDrucke-37377).jpg "Equestrian Portrait of Philip III (1578-1621) c.1628-35 by Diego Velázquez")
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_King_of_Spain_Painting_by_Diego_Rodriguez_de_S_-_(MeisterDrucke-970118).jpg "Portrait of Philip IV (1605-1665), King of Spain by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Christ on the Cross by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Equestrian portrait of Elisabeth de France, wife of Philip IV of Spain by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "The Dwarf, Sebastián de Morra, at the Court of Felipe IV by Diego Velázquez")
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_Aged_Five_1656_-_(MeisterDrucke-37944).jpg "Portrait of the Infanta Margarita Aged Five (1656) by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Queen Maria Anna of Spain in a Red Dress, 1655-60 by Diego Velázquez")
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 of Spain 1656 (detail of 405) - (MeisterDrucke-84976).jpg "Las Meninas, detail of the lower half depicting the family of Philip IV of Spain, 1656 (detail) by Diego Velázquez")
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_who_invented_th_-_(MeisterDrucke-996360).jpg "Portrait of the Greek Writer Aesop by Diego Velázquez")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-948382).jpg "Las Hilanderas or the Fable of Arachne by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Don Baltasar Carlos with a Dwarf by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Isabel de Borbon, Queen of Spain, on Horseback by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Jester Known as Don Juan of Austria (detail) by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "St. Anthony the Abbot and St. Paul the First Hermit by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "The Triumph of Bacchus or The Drunks (detail) by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Portrait of the jester Francisco Lezcano by Diego Velázquez")
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_daughter_of_Philip_IV_Painti_-_(MeisterDrucke-1029296).jpg "Portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita, Daughter of Philip IV by Diego Velázquez")
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_Painting_by_Diego_Rodriguez_de_S_-_(MeisterDrucke-999193).jpg "Portrait of a young man (presumed self-portrait) by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Christ After the Flagellation Contemplated by the Christian Soul, c.1628-9 by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Philip IV hunting Wild Boar, c. 1632-1637 by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Juan Martínez Montañés by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "The Triumph of Bacchus or The Drunkards, 17th Century by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Portrait of Cardinal Gaspar de Borja y Velasco by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Portrait presumed to be Juana Pacheco as a Sibyl by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Portrait of Juana Pacheco in Sibyl by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "John the Evangelist from Patmos by Diego Velázquez")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1024678).jpg "Saint Anthony the Great and Saint Paul Hermit by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "The God of War Mars (detail) by Diego Velázquez")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Infanta Maria Teresa at the Age of 14 by Diego Velázquez")
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