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Velázquez, Diego

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Author(s): Kern, Margit
[German Version] (full name: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez; Jun 6, 1599, Seville – Aug 7, 1660, Madrid). After studying in Seville with the painter and theoretician Francisco Pacheco, Velázquez went to Madrid, where he worked at the court of Philip IV after 1623. There he met P.P. Rubens in 1628/1629; the meeting probably inspired his travel to Italy, where he lived from 1629 to 1631 and again from 1649 to 1651. Through his exposure to Italian art (esp. Titian’s) and the painting of Rubens’…