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Diego Velazquez - Old Woman Frying EggsOld Woman Frying EggsDiego Velazquez

A genre painting. It is now in the National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh. Velazquez frequently used working-class characters in his early works such as this, using his family as models in many cases - the old woman here also appears in his Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1618). Like oth...

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Diego Velazquez - Venus at Her MirrorVenus at Her MirrorDiego Velazquez

The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Completed between 1647 and 1651, and probably painted during the artist's visit to Italy, the...

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Diego Velazquez - The LunchThe LunchDiego Velazquez

The Lunch is a very early painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, finished c. 1617. It is housed in the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg. The paintings portrays a table covered by a creased cloth, on which two pomegranates and a piece of bread lies. People attending the lunch include an aged m...

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Diego Velazquez - Arachne (A Sibyl)Arachne (A Sibyl)Diego Velazquez

Arachne (A Sibyl) is a oil painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. It was painted in 1644-48. This picture is also connected with Arachne, like the famous Las Hilanderas. It presents something of a problem: what is the dark-haired young woman pointing to on the empty panel in front of her? ...

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Diego Velazquez - Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) or the Royal FamilyLas Meninas (The Maids of Honor) or the Royal FamilyDiego Velazquez

Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a painting of the Spanish Golden Age. The work's complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates an uncertain relationship between the viewer and the figures depicted. Because of these complexities, Las Menin...

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Diego Velazquez - BachusBachusDiego Velazquez

The Triumph of Bacchus is a 1629 painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. The painting shows Bacchus surrounded by drunks. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drunks. Velázquez painted it after arriving in Madrid from Seville, between 1626 and 1628, just before h...

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Diego Velazquez - Self-PortraitSelf-PortraitDiego Velazquez

Self-Portrait is a oil painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. It was painted in 1645. The painter's aristocratic stance carries over into 'sprezzatura' or courtly nonchalance, of his brushwork. Two examples: a few dryer strokes at the neck for his linen, and a more charged brush for sword ...

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Diego Velazquez - Pope Innocent XPope Innocent XDiego Velazquez

The Portrait of Pope Innocent X is an oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, which he finished during a trip to Italy around 1650. Many artists and art critics consider it the finest portrait ever created[1]. It is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome. The Irish-born...

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Diego Velazquez - The Forge of VulcanThe Forge of VulcanDiego Velazquez

The Forge of Vulcan is a oil painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. The pictures Velázquez produced in Italy include the large Forge of Vulcan. The god of fire and his assistants are working a red-hot piece of metal in the forge, which is grey with dust, and another journeyman is making a ...

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Diego Velazquez - Mercury and ArgusMercury and ArgusDiego Velazquez

Mercury and Argus is a oil painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. Mercury was a messenger and a god of trade, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman mythology. In Greek mythology, Argus Panoptes or Argos, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor, was a primordial giant who...

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Diego Velazquez - The Farmers- LunchThe Farmers' LunchDiego Velazquez

The Farmers' Lunch (Almuerzo de campesinos) is one of the first paintings by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Painted in 1618, it combines a still life of food and drink with a depiction of three comic farmers, whose anatomy the artist studies closely. The composition shows a younger man gesturin...