Artist
Diego Velázquez
Spanish, 1599–1660
Diego Velázquez was a Spanish Early Baroque Italian painter. 87 works are cataloged here, principally at Museo del Prado, most of them oil paintings. Diego Velázquez was born in Seville.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art.
Works by Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
View of the Garden of the Villa Medici
Portrait of Juan de Pareja
The Surrender of Brea
Three Musicians
María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain
Las Hilanderas
The Needlewoman
Infanta Margarita Teresa
Portrait of the Jester Calabazas
Portrait of a Man
The Supper at Emmaus
Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles
Equestrian Portrait of Elisabeth of France
Juan Francisco Pimentel, conde de Benavente
Mars Resting
Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares
Adoration of the Magi
Portrait of Philip IV in Armour
The Jester Named Don John of Austria
The Triumph of Bacchus
Mercury and Argus
Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan
Philip IV as a Huntsman
Philip IV in Armour, with a Lion at his Feet
Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV
Prince Balthasar Charles as a Hunter
Portrait of Phillip IV of Spain, at three-quarter length
Kitchen Scene with the Supper in Emmaus
Christ Crucified
Portrait of Juan Martínez Montañés
Doña Antonia de Ipeñarrieta y Galdós and Her Son Don Luis
Buffoon with books, formerly known as portrait of "el Primo"
Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress
Philip IV in old age
Collections represented
Moments involving Diego Velázquez
- Rokeby Venus attacked at the National Gallery · 1914 The attack became one of the defining examples of modern political vandalism directed at a museum masterpiece.
- Louvre Spanish Gallery Opens · 1838 The gallery accelerated French interest in Spanish painting and helped shape later Realist and modernist looking.
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