Diego Velázquez

Kim 1 Diego Velázquez 's Las Meninas Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez is depicted as a group portrait of Spanish King Philip IV (8 April 1605 - 17 September 1665) at the Habsburg court. The painting well demonstrates Velázquez 's painting techniques that can be recognized by dramatic mood, rich color and extreme contrast between light and dark. It is absolutely extraordinary and implies influences Velázquez has had, especially Flemish Baroque realism. Velázquez had a deeper ambition in his mind when

Pope Innocent X is part of the loose series of “screaming popes” (Sylvester, 40) of which there are approximately 45 surviving works (Schmied, 17) completed during the 50’s and early 60’s. The series was not only inspired by Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velazquez’s Portrait of the Pope Innocent X, a painting which Bacon had many copies of but famously avoided seeing in person (Phaidon) The truth behind Francis Bacon 's 'screaming ' popes) but also medical textbooks, works by the German Renaissance

Diego Velazquez was a spanish artist during the 17th century. He first started painting under a religious paintings and later changed to impressionism. With the help of his Father-in Law, he was granted the opportunity to paint a portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares. This was a major undertaking for the then 23 year old Velazquez, that gained him much recognition. After the successful portrait of the count-duke, he was recommended to King Philip IV for the same services. Philip was so impressed with

its senses. Many modern day artists are influenced by these Renaissance artists. Picasso, a well-known modern day artist, was influenced by a not so known artist named Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez. Diego Velazquez was a painter during the 17th century known for his religious theme paintings and realism. This realism that Diego Velazquez painted could be argued was influenced by his slave Juan de Pareja. Not much is known about Juan de Pareja, but from what is known was written in the fiction