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Diego Velázquez, the Glossary

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.^[1]

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Paintings by Diego Velázquez
Spanish people of Portuguese descent

Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca (Academy of Saint Luke) is an Italian academy of artists in Rome.

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Adoration of the Magi (Velázquez)

The Adoration of the Magi is a 1619 Baroque painting by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez now held in the Museo del Prado. Diego Velázquez and Adoration of the Magi (Velázquez) are paintings by Diego Velázquez.

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Airs above the ground

The airs above the ground or school jumps are a series of higher-level, Haute ecole, classical dressage movements in which the horse leaves the ground.

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Albert II of Belgium

Albert II (born 6 June 1934) is a member of the Belgian royal family who reigned as King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 until his abdication on 21 July 2013.

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Alonso Sánchez Coello

Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531 – 8 August 1588) was an Iberian portrait painter of the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance. Diego Velázquez and Alonso Sánchez Coello are Spanish male painters and Spanish people of Portuguese descent.

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Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replaced Rococo as the dominant painting style in Europe. Diego Velázquez and Anton Raphael Mengs are Catholic painters.

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Antonio Palomino

Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 April 1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of El Museo pictórico y escala óptica, which contains a large amount of important biographical material on Spanish artists. Diego Velázquez and Antonio Palomino are 17th-century Spanish painters, Catholic painters and Spanish male painters.

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Antonis Mor

Anthonis Mor, also known as Anthonis Mor van Dashorst and Antonio Moro (c. 1517 – 1577), was a Netherlandish portrait painter, much in demand by the courts of Europe.

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Apollo (magazine)

Apollo is an English-language monthly magazine covering the visual arts of all periods from antiquity to the present day.

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Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan

Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan (Apolo en la Fragua de Vulcano), sometimes referred to as Vulcan's Forge, is an oil painting by Diego de Velázquez completed after his first visit to Italy in 1629.

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Apsley House

Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington.

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Arachne

Arachne (from, cognate with Latin) is the protagonist of a tale in Greek mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story.

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Aragon

Aragon (Spanish and Aragón; Aragó) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.

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Azurite

Azurite is a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits.

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Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter.

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Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias

Balthasar Charles (17 October 1629 – 9 October 1646), Prince of Asturias, Prince of Girona, Duke of Montblanc, Count of Cervera, and Lord of Balaguer, Prince of Viana was heir apparent to all the kingdoms, states and dominions of the Spanish monarchy until his death.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo are 17th-century Spanish painters, Catholic painters, painters from Seville, Spanish Roman Catholics and Spanish male painters.

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Bidasoa

The Bidasoa (Bidassoa) is a river in the Basque Country of northern Spain and southern France that runs largely south to north.

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Blanton Museum of Art

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe.

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Bodegón

The term bodega in Spanish can mean "pantry", "tavern", or "wine cellar".

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Buen Retiro Palace

Buen Retiro Palace (Spanish: Palacio del Buen Retiro) in Madrid was a large palace complex designed by the architect Alonso Carbonell (c. 1590–1660) and built on the orders of Philip IV of Spain as a secondary residence and place of recreation (hence its name).

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio;,,; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. Diego Velázquez and Caravaggio are Catholic painters.

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Carl XVI Gustaf

Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden.

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Carmine

Carminealso called cochineal (when it is extracted from the cochineal insect), cochineal extract, crimson lake, or carmine lake is a pigment of a bright-red color obtained from the aluminium complex derived from carminic acid.

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Cento

Cento (Northern Bolognese: Zèint; City Bolognese: Zänt; Centese: Zènt) is a town and comune in the province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Christ Crucified (Velázquez)

Christ Crucified is a 1632 painting by Diego Velázquez depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Cobalt glass

Cobalt glass—known as "smalt" when ground as a pigment—is a deep blue coloured glass prepared by including a cobalt compound, typically cobalt oxide or cobalt carbonate, in a glass melt.

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Collins English Dictionary

The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.

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Converso

A converso (feminine form conversa), "convert", was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.

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Cross of Saint James

The Cross of Saint James, also known as the Santiago cross, cruz espada, or Saint James' Cross, is a cruciform (cross-shaped) heraldic badge.

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David Wilkie (artist)

Sir David Wilkie (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes.

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Dionysus

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Διόνυσος) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

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Doria Pamphilj Gallery

The Doria Pamphilj Gallery (often Doria Pamphili Gallery in English) is a large private art collection housed in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Italy, between Via del Corso and Via della Gatta.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Ducat

The ducat coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century.

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El Escorial

El Escorial, or the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Monasterio y Sitio de El Escorial en Madrid), or italic, is a historical residence of the King of Spain located in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, up the valley (road distance) from the town of El Escorial and about northwest of the Spanish capital Madrid.

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El ministerio del tiempo

El ministerio del tiempo (English title: The Ministry of Time) is a Spanish fantasy television series created by and Pablo Olivares and produced by Onza Partners and Cliffhanger for Televisión Española (TVE).

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Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain

Elisabeth of France or Isabella of Bourbon (22 November 1602 – 6 October 1644) was Queen of Spain from 1621 to her death and Queen of Portugal from 1621 to 1640, as the first spouse of King Philip IV & III.

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Enriqueta Harris

Enriqueta Harris Frankfort (17 May 1910 — 22 April 2006) was a British art historian and writer who specialised in Spanish art.

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Equestrian facility

An equestrian facility is created and maintained for the purpose of accommodating, training or competing equids, especially horses.

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Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles

The Equestrian Portrait of Prince Balthasar Charles is a portrait of Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias on horseback, painted in 1634–35 by Diego Velázquez.

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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Felipe VI

Felipe VI (Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Grecia; born 30 January 1968) is King of Spain. Diego Velázquez and Felipe VI are Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023) was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.

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Ferrara

Ferrara (Fràra) is a city and comune (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara.

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Figure with Meat

Figure with Meat is a 1954 painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Fraga

Fraga is the major town of the comarca of Bajo Cinca (Baix Cinca) in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.

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Francis Bacon (artist)

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery.

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Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Quevedo are knights of Santiago and Spanish untitled nobility.

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Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. Diego Velázquez and Francisco Goya are Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Francisco Herrera the Elder

Francisco Herrera (1576–1656) was a distinguished Spanish painter, born in Seville. Diego Velázquez and Francisco Herrera the Elder are 17th-century Spanish painters, Catholic painters, painters from Seville, Spanish Roman Catholics and Spanish male painters.

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Francisco Pacheco

Francisco Pacheco del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644) was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting, entitled ''Art of Painting'', that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. Diego Velázquez and Francisco Pacheco are 17th-century Spanish painters, painters from Seville, Spanish Roman Catholics and Spanish male painters.

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Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares

Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, 1st Duke of Sanlúcar, 3rd Count of Olivares,, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (taken by joining both his countship and subsequent dukedom) (6 January 1587 – 22 July 1645), was a Spanish royal favourite (valido) of Philip IV and minister.

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Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (born Gaspar Melchor de Jove y Llanos, 5 January 1744 – 27 November 1811) was a Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher and a major figure of the Age of Enlightenment in Spain.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Guernica (Picasso)

Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

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Guido Reni

Guido Reni (4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. Diego Velázquez and Guido Reni are Catholic painters.

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Habsburg monarchy

The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.

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Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

Hans-Adam II (Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d'Aviano Pius; born 14 February 1945) is the Prince of Liechtenstein.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Henri (Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume,; Heinrich; born 16 April 1955) is Grand Duke of Luxembourg, reigning since 2000.

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Henry Raeburn

Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter.

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Herman Braun-Vega

Herman Braun-Vega (7 July 1933 in Lima — 2 April 2019 in Paris) was a Peruvian painter and artist.

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Hispania (personification)

Hispania is the national personification of Spain.

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Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

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Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress

Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress is one of the best-known portraits by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez.

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Infante

Infante (f. infanta), also anglicised as "infant" or translated as "prince", is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to the sons and daughters (infantas) of the king, regardless of age, sometimes with the exception of the heir apparent or heir presumptive to the throne who usually bears a unique princely or ducal title.

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James McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.

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Jennifer Montagu

Jennifer Iris Rachel Montagu (born 20 March 1931) is a British art historian with emphasis in the study of Italian Baroque sculpture.

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.

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John the Baptist

John the Baptist (–) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD.

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Jonathan Brown (art historian)

Jonathan Mayer Brown (July 15, 1939 – January 17, 2022) was an American art historian, known for his work on Spanish art, particularly Diego Velázquez.

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José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca

José Moñino y Redondo, 1st Count of Floridablanca (October 21, 1728 – December 30, 1808) was a Spanish statesman.

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Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits.

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (c.1612 – February 10, 1667) was a Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter, the most distinguished of the followers of his father-in-law Velázquez, whose style he imitated more closely than did any other artist. Diego Velázquez and Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo are 17th-century Spanish painters and Spanish male painters.

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Juan Carreño de Miranda

Juan Carreño de Miranda (25 March 1614 — 3 October 1685) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period. Diego Velázquez and Juan Carreño de Miranda are 17th-century Spanish painters, Catholic painters, Spanish Roman Catholics and Spanish male painters.

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Juan de Pareja

Juan de Pareja (–) was a Spanish painter of multiracial descent. Diego Velázquez and Juan de Pareja are 17th-century Spanish painters, Spanish male painters and Spanish portrait painters.

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Juan Martínez Montañés

Juan Martínez Montañés (March 16, 1568 – June 18, 1649), known as el Dios de la Madera (the God of Wood), was a Spanish sculptor, born at Alcalá la Real, in the province of Jaén. Diego Velázquez and Juan Martínez Montañés are Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Jusepe de Ribera

Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Diego Velázquez and Jusepe de Ribera are Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.

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Las Hilanderas

("The Spinners") is a painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, in the of Madrid, Spain.

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Las Meninas

paren) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and for the uncertain relationship it creates between the viewer and the figures depicted.

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Lead-tin yellow

Lead-tin yellow is a yellow pigment, of historical importance in oil painting, sometimes called the "Yellow of the Old Masters" because of the frequency with which it was used by those famous painters.

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Lexico

Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Limpieza de sangre

Limpieza de sangre, also known as limpeza de sangue or neteja de sang, literally 'cleanliness of blood' and meaning 'blood purity', was a racially discriminatory term used in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires during the early modern period to refer to those who were considered to be Old Christians by virtue of not having Muslim, Jewish, Romani, or Agote ancestors.

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List of works by Diego Velázquez

This is a list of paintings and drawings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Diego Velázquez and list of works by Diego Velázquez are paintings by Diego Velázquez.

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Loreto, Marche

Loreto is a hill town and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.

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Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora;; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic prebendary for the Church of Córdoba.

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Madlyn M. Kahr

Madlyn Millner Kahr (née Madlyn Millner; 1913–2004) was an American art historian and educator.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Mannerism

Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.

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Margaret Theresa of Spain

Margaret Theresa of Spain (Margarita Teresa, Margarete Theresia; 12 July 1651 – 12 March 1673) was, by marriage to Leopold I, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.

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Maria Anna of Spain

Maria Anna of Spain (18 August 160613 May 1646).

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Maria Theresa of Spain

Maria Theresa of Spain (María Teresa de Austria; Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche; 10 September 1638 – 30 July 1683) was Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. Diego Velázquez and Maria Theresa of Spain are Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Mariana of Austria

Mariana or Maria Anna of Austria, (24 December 1634 – 16 May 1696), was Queen of Spain from 1649, when she married her uncle Philip IV of Spain, until his death in 1665.

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Mars Resting

Mars or Resting Mars (Descanso de Marte, literally The Rest of Mars) is a 1640 painting by Diego Velázquez.

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Masterpiece

A masterpiece, magnum opus, or paren) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship. Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts.

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Málaga

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Medici lions

The Medici lions are a pair of marble sculptures of lions: one of which is Roman, dating to the 2nd century AD, and the other a 16th-century pendant.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.

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Modena

Modena (Mòdna; Mutna; Mutina) is a city and comune (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.

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Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Morisco

Moriscos (mouriscos; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam.

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Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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Naïve realism

In philosophy of perception and epistemology, naïve realism (also known as direct realism or perceptual realism) is the idea that the senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Notary

A notary is a person authorised to perform acts in legal affairs, in particular witnessing signatures on documents.

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Nudity

Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing.

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Ochre

Ochre, iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.

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Order of Alcántara

The Order of Alcántara (Leonese: Orde de Alcántara, Orden de Alcántara), also called the Knights of St.

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Order of Santiago

The Order of Santiago (Orden de Santiago) is a religious and military order founded in the 12th century.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Diego Velázquez and Pablo Picasso are Spanish male painters.

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Paolo Veronese

Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese (also), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Diego Velázquez and Paolo Veronese are Catholic painters.

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Peninsular War

The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. Diego Velázquez and Peter Paul Rubens are Catholic painters.

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Philip II of Spain

Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. Diego Velázquez and Philip II of Spain are knights of Santiago and Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Philip III of Spain

Philip III (Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. Diego Velázquez and Philip III of Spain are knights of Santiago and Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Philip IV of Spain

Philip IV (Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Diego Velázquez and Philip IV of Spain are knights of Santiago and Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Pietro Tacca

Pietro Tacca (16 September 1577 – 26 October 1640) was an Italian sculptor, who was the chief pupil and follower of Giambologna.

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Pigment

A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.

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Plaza de Oriente

The Plaza de Oriente is a square in the historic center of Madrid, Spain.

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Pope Innocent X

Pope Innocent X (Innocentius X; Innocenzo X; 6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.

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Portrait of a Man (Velázquez)

Portrait of a Man is an oil painting by Diego Velázquez, measuring 68.6 × 55.2 cm (27 × 21 in.), the frame is from Northern Spain and painted c. 1630–1635.

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Portrait of Innocent X

Portrait of Pope Innocent X is an oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, created during a trip to Italy around 1650.

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Portrait of Juan de Pareja

The Portrait of Juan de Pareja is a painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez of the enslaved Juan de Pareja, a notable painter in his own right, who was owned by Velázquez at the time the painting was completed.

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Portrait painting

Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject.

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Prince Balthasar Charles with a Dwarf

Prince Balthasar Charles With a Dwarf is a 1631 portrait by Diego Velázquez of Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias and a court dwarf.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Principality of Reuss-Gera

The Principality of Reuss-Gera (Fürstentum Reuß-Gera), called the Principality of the Reuss Junior Line (Fürstentum Reuß jüngerer Linie) after 1848, was a sovereign state in modern Germany, ruled by members of the House of Reuss.

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Queen Sofía of Spain

Sofía (born Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark, Σοφία; 2 November 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who was Queen of Spain from 1975 to 2014 as the wife of King Juan Carlos I. She is the first child of King Paul of Greece and Frederica of Hanover. Diego Velázquez and Queen Sofía of Spain are Spanish Roman Catholics.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.

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Realism (art movement)

Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution.

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Representation of slavery in European art

Representations of slavery in European art date back to ancient times.

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Robert I. Rotberg

Robert Irwin Rotberg (born April 11, 1935) is an academic from the United States who served as President of the World Peace Foundation (1993–2010).

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Rodrigo de Villandrando (painter)

Rodrigo de Villandrando (1588 – December 1622) was a court painter during the reign of Philip III of Spain. Diego Velázquez and Rodrigo de Villandrando (painter) are 17th-century Spanish painters and Spanish male painters.

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Rokeby Venus

The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid; Whose original title was "The Mirror's Venus" La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly in London, England.

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Royal Alcázar of Madrid

The Royal Alcázar of Madrid (Spanish: Real Alcázar de Madrid) was a fortress located at the site of today's Royal Palace of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

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Royal court

A royal court, often called simply a court when the royal context is clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure.

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Royal Palace of Madrid

The Royal Palace of Madrid (Palacio Real de Madrid) is the official residence of the Spanish royal family at the city of Madrid, although now used only for state ceremonies.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Diego Velázquez and Salvador Dalí are Spanish Roman Catholics and Spanish male painters.

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Salvador Salort-Pons

Salvador Salort-Pons (born April 18, 1970) is a Spanish-American art historian and museum director.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.

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Sinecure

A sinecure (or; from the Latin sine, 'without', and cura, 'care') is an office, carrying a salary or otherwise generating income, that requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.

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Spanish Golden Age

The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro ˈsiɣlo ðe ˈoɾo, "Golden Century") was a period that coincided with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs.

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Spanish Inquisition

The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile.

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Spanish real

The real (English: /ɹeɪˈɑl/ Spanish: /reˈal/) (meaning: "royal", plural: reales) was a unit of currency in Spain for several centuries after the mid-14th century.

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Spanish royal collection

The Spanish royal collection of art was almost entirely built up by the monarchs of the Habsburg family who ruled Spain from 1516 to 1700, and then the Bourbons (1700–1868, with a brief interruption).

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Spanish royal family

The Spanish royal family constitutes the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon (Casa de Borbón), also known as the House of Bourbon-Anjou (Casa de Borbón-Anjou).

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Still life

A still life (still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then.

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Tenebrism

Tenebrism, from Italian ("dark, gloomy, mysterious"), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image.

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The Jester Don Diego de Acedo

The Jester Don Diego de Acedo is one of a series of portraits of jesters at the court of Philip IV of Spain by Diego Velázquez.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Order of Things

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.

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The Rape of Europa (Titian)

The Rape of Europa is a painting by the Venetian artist Titian, painted ca.

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The Surrender of Breda

(English: The Surrender of Breda, also known as – The Lances) is a painting by the Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez.

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The Triumph of Bacchus

The Triumph of Bacchus (Greek: Ο Θρίαμβος τουΒάκχου) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid.

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Theodore K. Rabb

Theodore K. Rabb (March 5, 1937 – January 7, 2019) was an American historian specializing in the early modern period of European history.

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Thomas Lawrence

Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy.

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Tintoretto

Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. Diego Velázquez and Tintoretto are Catholic painters.

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Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (27 August 1576), Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter, the most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting. Diego Velázquez and Titian are Catholic painters.

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Vermilion

Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide).

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View of the Garden of the Villa Medici

View of the Garden of the Villa Medici is a small painting by Diego Velázquez of the garden at the Villa Medici in Rome, with some figures standing watching an unseen event, possibly the works behind the scaffolding in the middle of the building in the background.

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Warburg Institute

The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London in central London, England.

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Web Gallery of Art

The Web Gallery of Art (WGA) is a virtual art gallery website.

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Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

Willem-Alexander (Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born 27 April 1967) is King of the Netherlands.

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Yale University Art Gallery

The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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References

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