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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.
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.