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Diego Velázquez

(1599—1660) Spanish painter, court painter to Philip IV


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(bapt. Seville, 6 June 1599; d Madrid, 6 Aug. 1660).

The greatest painter of the Spanish School, chiefly celebrated as one of the supreme portraitists in world art. He spent ...

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Velázquez, Diego (6 June 1599)
in The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3) Length: 1792 words
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Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y (1599–1660)
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